On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 12:15 +0000, lux-integ wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2013 09:17:51 Simon Geard wrote: > > Every DSL device I've seen in years - including the free ones ISPs hand > > out to new customers - has just been a router with an ethernet port. The > > device itself takes care of the DSL part - you just need to plug in your > > PC, and do whatever you'd normally do for an ethernet device. > > > thats just it I dont want the routing mulki, I can do this meself and for > multiple subnets. There is a pci adsl2 modem (ikanos chipset ??? (I think ) > by sangoma (and others ) I think and support for it is in the kernel, but it > is quite expensive.
You specified "low cost adsl2 modems". But low-cost ADSL devices generally aren't PCI cards - they're just ethernet blackboxes that don't need any setup at all. Plug 'em in, DHCP does the rest, and you're online in seconds. Simon.
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