On Wednesday 10 April 2002 07:48, Derek Fountain wrote: Hi,
Well in 7.2+ 2/3rds of the how-to is already done, so no patching and recompiling of the kernel is needed.
Fair point. I was working on a 7.1 system, and I wasn't sure which bits were already done for me by SuSE.
I gave up trying in 7.1, and stuck to having it on my Windows box. I have my fingers crossed that it might be supported 'out of the box' in SuSE 8 <g>
I had it running under Windows for the best part of a year, and I averaged 3-4 days uptime, under Linux I am managing about 25-30 days. It also seams faster, but I am not sure what utility I should use for measuring my connection speed.
Only 3-4 weeks under Linux? That's pretty poor actually! Do you have any reason to believe that this unreliability is being caused by the modem driver?
No, it is at the ISP's end, and any one who knows BT will know that 3-4 weeks is excellent <g>. My re-dial script only takes a few seconds to reconnect, and I have a static IP address, so it is not really that much of an issue.
The real reason my friend wanted a Linux machine doing the connection work was for security. I told him to take an old P166 machine he has and put it between his Windows gateway (with the modem) and his internal network. The Windows box will still be vunerable, but having a Linux firewall in there will at least protect his network's data...
This is basically what I have set up. I have a P166/32Mb RAN running the ADSL modem and SuSEFirewall2, I have another SuSE box doing DNS and 'email duties', and all the 'client' machines are Windows boxes (Wife and Kids), works like a dream. Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 9:28am up 19:53, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.20, 0.06