[NTLUG:Discuss] FIOS

[Leroy Tennison]

On 03/29/2013 01:31 PM, Greg Edwards wrote:
> Has anyone connected their Linux server to Verizon FIOS?
>
> My question is what device options are available?  Verizon sells a 
> wireless router but claims that it has to be connected to a Windows 
> box.  I haven't been able to find any info on exactly how they connect 
> up.  Is there a modem like DSL on the house side of the FIOS box?  Or 
> does the FIOS circuit connect directly through cat 5 or coax?
>
> For me there are some problems with their option.  First I do not want 
> a Windows box for my firewall or router.  Second I do not want to be 
> wireless.  I don't think I want my firewall running on a device, if 
> that's the purpose of their router.  I'm happy with the configuration 
> that I have now where my modem is connected directly to my Linux box 
> over 1 nic which is my firewall and routes to my internal network.
>
> TIA,

I now have Verizon and am using FIOS, unlike another post, they provided 
a "box", specifically a Westell A90-9100EM15 10.  Cable on one side, 
Ethernet on the other.  From the house side it's an Ethernet 
connection.  You can run Windows/*NIX/OS-2/DOS/whatever. The "box" may 
have a firewall, I don't care, I'm running my own as well.