You may want to check out smoothwall @ www.smoothwall.org I even think the newest version aut detects dsl. Its got a slick web interface , has dhcp as well as the built in firewall. Check it out , its a lot less technical than freesco. I am not knocking freeso , its a great router on disk , thais is what I like about linux , freedom of choice. At 11:45 PM 4/17/2001 +0100, David Bottrill wrote:
Thomas,
Mi Wife works for a small charity that has just upgraded from a dial-up account with Demon Internet to the business ADSL offering with the Ethernet offering not USB. I was contemplating the best way of conneting their network of 11 PCs to the ADSL service. In the end I opted for Freesco www.freesco.org straight away this gave me routing with NAT, DNS, DHCP and even a print server if required. OK I know it won't work out of the box with the Alacatel USB driver, but at least you would be halfway there. I don't know how wasy it would be to add USB support to the Kernel supplied by Freesco, I don't even know what version it is based on I just installed it onto an old 486 and forgot it. All I can say is the router has performed as well as I would have expected, it must have been running now for about 3 months. The only problems we are experiencing are BT related with the Alactel router being unable to connect to Demon, which Demon claim is a BT problem, but are not prepared to raise a fault ticket with BT to get it sorted. Thus saying it has been OK for the last week or so.
I digress, I would drop an email to the guys at Freesco, they may be prepared to consider the Alcatel modem in a future release.
I'm afraid I may not have been much help but I'm sure there are enough people on this list who have the SuSE skills to help. Although if you are lucky enough to get the Ethernet based option then setting up Freesco is a breeze. If you intend to install Linux as a router / firewall, I would suggest you order ADSL without NAT and provide the NAT and firewall yourself, that way you are in control, not BT.
David Bottrill
-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Beauchamp [mailto:thomas@noproblem.net] Sent: 16 April 2001 18:54 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] NAT ADSL BT router - DHCP - Firewall - DMZ under 7.1
Hello,
I have currently several Windows 9x/ME and Mac OS 9 machines connected to the Net via a Windows ME gateway machine and a BT-supplied NAT ADSL Alcatel 512/256 router.
I plan to use a Linux suSE7.1 based machine as Internet Gateway with DCHP, Firewall and a DMZ for a Mail Server (and possibly a Web Server too).
I can and know how to read HOW-TO files. what I am after is personal experience ... anybody there with hands-on experience of this?
Happy Easter (for what is left of it ...)
Thomas Beauchamp No Problem Services Ltd
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