[NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions

[Jack Snodgrass]

running linux as a router/firewall has it's advantages.

It's REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hard to beat the little linksys
router/firewall though. It's super tiny, quiet, and cool.
Can't say that about many PCs. When I was testing it, I had
it sitting in the gap behind my entertainment center and
my DSL Drop.

I am running a linux box as my router because I wanted a
24/7 DNS and some better filtering/forwarding. I've also
been running linux since 95. If I was a newbie.... I'd
definiltly be running the linksys thingie.

jack




----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Ferguson" <jferg3 at swbell.net>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions


> I have DSL through SWBell here in Greenville (just moved from Omaha, it
> suprised me I could get DSL _and_ Cable here).
>
> I was checking into using Coyote Linux, an offshoot of the Linux Router
> Project, on the P75 I bought for $35 at a computer show. However, it's
> beeping at me (long beep, motherboard or power supply, so its probably
> dead). When I created the Coyote disk, I got the following:
>
> - Firewall
> - DHCP Server
> - Identd Server
>
> All of this on one floppy (based on kernel 2.2.19). It supports PPPoE as
> well.
>
> Seems to me a cheap 486 or Pentium box, a bit of memory, a hub, and two
NIC
> Cards _might_ be cheaper if you like to trade parts around.
>
> Jason
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ddaupert at csc.com>
> To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:38 AM
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions
>
>
> > Sorry to be soooo simple, but this is my first time thru, and I'm not
yet
> > very network savvy.
> > I've recently been informed I can get DSL in my area (SW Fort Worth)
thru
> > SWBell. I've
> > listened to the traffic on this group about August.net closing off to
new
> > customers due to
> > SWBell's biz practices, and that doesn't lessen my anxiety much.
Anyways,
> > here goes.
> >
> > SWBell has a "special" for $49.+/month, equipment is "free" and the
> > self-installation kit
> > is "free," but only for windows. They'll charge me a couple hundred for
a
> > technician
> > installation. Questions: can I just get the self-installation kit, run
> > windows in vmware, do
> > setup, then switch over to linux and configure? Are there any gotchas I
> > need to know about?
> >
> > I hear people talking about static IPs, but I *think* this would only be
> an
> > issue if I were
> > going to run a web server or mail server or whatever, right? I'm not
> > planning on running
> > any servers on my system. It seems to me they really sock it to you for
> > static ips. I had
> > hoped to go thru august.net for isp. I am now an earthlink customer,
after
> > mindspring
> > got into bed with earthlink, after pipeline got bought out by
mindspring.
> > Earthlink wants
> > to charge $67.50/month for dsl plus static ip, and on top of swbell
> wanting
> > $49.+ plus
> > their ip fee -- holy cripes. I guess I should just take my beating
without
> > complaint, tho;
> > for 50 Xs the speed of dial up; let's see, I pay $21/month for dial up,
50
> > times that would
> > be Yikes! $1000/month. $120 or so sounds like a deal!
> >
> > dennis
> >
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