Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:34:54 -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote
>
>> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
>>
>>> Get yourself a Router (A D-Link DI-804HV comes to mind). And let the
>>> router do
>>> all the logging in and configuration for you.
>>
>>
>> Thats fine for a simple NAT. For granularity and QoS, packet shaping
>> for VoIP (vonage, etc), allowing true stateful packet filtering, port
>> forwarding, etc; IPtables is a better solution.
>>
>
> That's what I use as well. The features that are not required can be
> turned
> off. I use the software firewall in Linux (Iptables) and I have one on
> Windows
> (Not the windows crap version though) as well. But as for broadband
> configuration, I find an external router is much easier to configure. And
> since this one also has a 4 port switch, I can connect to other PC's
> on the
> LAN as well. Plus mine logs on for me as well, so, I don't have to
> write a
> script to do that for me.
>
> Wolf
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I'm going to hijack this thread for a moment since it seems pertinent to
a problem I'm having. If this is out of line, please feel free to flame
or ignore me as suits the situation.
I have a DSL connection through QWest and a local ISP. Setting up the
ActionTEC DSL modem using PPP0A and DHCP was trivial with Windows, as
was the Linksys WRT54G four-port switch. Fairly painless other than the
wireless, which I finally resolved to my satisfaction.
You may have noticed this is being posted from a WinXP system; this is
because under FC3, installed with the DSL active, I can do simple
network things like ping to, say, google or to my workplace, but cannot
get a browser (firefox as delivered) or up2date or yum to work. I should
have saved my routing table and other items before posting this, and
presented them here for review, but did not think of it in time. I will
boot up FC3 and grab that info and post it as a reply to this note.
I'm a bit confused and could use some help...
Be back soon.
Chuck Sterling
Well then, never mind. Upon restarting FC3 I found everything working.
It's possible, likely, that I was mistaken about the browsers not
working. In the case of up2date and yum I'm fairly sure that I just did
not wait long enough for anything to start displaying before giving up.
There are, if you do a full install, something like 720 updates to
install, and I suspect that there was preliminary processing going on
before progress was displayed. I got impatient. This evening I walked
away for maybe 20 minutes and found yum doing its thing when I returned.
I have not configured the news and mail clients yet, so am still posting
from WinXP.
Thanks if you've given this "problem" some thought; no fix needed now.
Best regards,
Chuck Sterling