Hi All, I am still on dialup here in the UK, but have been wondering whether to dip my toes into broadband. There are a couple of reasonably attractively priced deals involving kit like the Netgear DG814 broadband router and 4 port switch - since I had intended to to have a small network anyway, this might form a useful alternative to attaching a usb modem to the SuSE machine and then having to buy a separate hub. However, my ignorance is complete - anyone got any experience with such devices under SuSE, and / or other *nix, ideally experience that involves attaching to the BTOpenworld broadband, the only kind I actually have on offer where I live. Don't worry about patronising me, I really know zip about this category of equipment. Thanks for any input Best Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB UK Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797
I'm obviously not in the UK, but I have a Linksys Cable Modem/DSL Router with a 4 port switch which works great for my internal network. For a cable modem I have a Motorola SB4100. I've had occasion to reboot the cable modem once or twice. Before I bought that cable modem I had a Lan City cable modem leased from the broadband provider. Before I got the router, I had SuSE plugged into the cable modem serving my internal network via IP Masquerading. On 27 Aug 2002 at 13:50, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi All,
I am still on dialup here in the UK, but have been wondering whether to dip my toes into broadband. There are a couple of reasonably attractively priced deals involving kit like the Netgear DG814 broadband router and 4 port switch - since I had intended to to have a small network anyway, this might form a useful alternative to attaching a usb modem to the SuSE machine and then having to buy a separate hub.
However, my ignorance is complete - anyone got any experience with such devices under SuSE, and / or other *nix, ideally experience that involves attaching to the BTOpenworld broadband, the only kind I actually have on offer where I live. Don't worry about patronising me, I really know zip about this category of equipment.
-- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/
I had the luxury of an old box lying around, on that I installed Smoothwall (contentious issue - but I like it) and plugged it into a netgear DS108 hub. I currently have 2 windoze boxes and 2 SuSE boxes attached to this hub (7.3 & 8.0) The Speedtouch ALACATEL usb modem took a little tweaking to get it running but the end result is 4 pc's hanging off 1 ADSL line. I have no issues with speed and full confidence in Smoothwall... Total cost ? - Hub - c £50 Box - £free (in my case although you should be able to pick something up relatively cheap nowadays £50 ish) Modem - As part of the broadband kit £85.00 hth Pete On Tuesday 27 August 2002 12:50, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Hi All,
I am still on dialup here in the UK, but have been wondering whether to dip my toes into broadband. There are a couple of reasonably attractively priced deals involving kit like the Netgear DG814 broadband router and 4 port switch - since I had intended to to have a small network anyway, this might form a useful alternative to attaching a usb modem to the SuSE machine and then having to buy a separate hub.
However, my ignorance is complete - anyone got any experience with such devices under SuSE, and / or other *nix, ideally experience that involves attaching to the BTOpenworld broadband, the only kind I actually have on offer where I live. Don't worry about patronising me, I really know zip about this category of equipment.
Thanks for any input Best Fergus
Hi All,
I am still on dialup here in the UK, but have been wondering whether to dip my toes into broadband. There are a couple of reasonably attractively
I'm using the Linksys BEFSR41 router on an ADSL link, and it works perfectly and very easily, and Linux has no trouble at all with it. I set mine up in Windows, but since the setup is by browser, you can set it up in any OS, using Netscape (as I did) or anything else. The nice part is, it contains its own firewall, so you don't have to fool with any other kind of firewall when you use it. I don't know if it uses embedded Linux or FreeBSD as its operating system, but it sure works and is extremely reliable. (No, I don't work for them or hold their stock.) I think the prices--at least in the US--are quite reasonable nowadays. --doug At 13:50 08/27/2002 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote: priced
deals involving kit like the Netgear DG814 broadband router and 4 port switch - since I had intended to to have a small network anyway, this might form a useful alternative to attaching a usb modem to the SuSE machine and then having to buy a separate hub.
However, my ignorance is complete - anyone got any experience with such devices under SuSE, and / or other *nix, ideally experience that involves attaching to the BTOpenworld broadband, the only kind I actually have on offer where I live. Don't worry about patronising me, I really know zip about this category of equipment.
Thanks for any input Best Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB UK
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On Tuesday 27 August 2002 05:50, you wrote:
Hi All,
I am still on dialup here in the UK, but have been wondering whether to dip my toes into broadband. There are a couple of reasonably attractively priced deals involving kit like the Netgear DG814 broadband router and 4 port switch - since I had intended to to have a small network anyway, this might form a useful alternative to attaching a usb modem to the SuSE machine and then having to buy a separate hub.
However, my ignorance is complete - anyone got any experience with such devices under SuSE, and / or other *nix, ideally experience that involves attaching to the BTOpenworld broadband, the only kind I actually have on offer where I live. Don't worry about patronising me, I really know zip about this category of equipment.
Thanks for any input Best Fergus
fergus- i use the netgear rt311. i've had it for a couple of years. it's sitting behind my cable modem. it doesn't have an integrated hub. i'm using a linksys 8 port hub. the only thing i don't like about the netgear router is that it lacks a logging facility. but it's been so long since i had a problem with it (the day i plugged it in) that i don't even remember how to control it thru my browser. overall it's been rock solid. hope this helps larry
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:24:49 -0700 emanon <emanon25@attbi.com> wrote:
i use the netgear rt311. i've had it for a couple of years. it's sitting behind my cable modem. it doesn't have an integrated hub. i'm using a linksys 8 port hub. the only thing i don't like about the netgear router is that it lacks a logging facility. but it's been so long since i had a problem with it (the day i plugged it in) that i don't even remember how to control it thru my browser. overall it's been rock solid.
But the rt311 can log. It has a syslog interface, and you just redirect it to a machine that accepts incoming syslog traffic. Admittedly, the logs aren't full of details, but you can at least see who's sending you traffic and what it is. I don't think it does data- dumps, but... -- Anders Jarnberg in Stockholm, Sweden Running SuSE 8.0, KDE, Sylpheed and listening to Massinova with xmms
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