On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:45:16PM +0000, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > I have combined the modem and firewall by installing a Bewan adsl card, > > which has Linux support: > > http://www.bewan.com/bewan/products/adsl/bwadslpcist.php > > Cheers for that - it looks rather nice. Hope you don't mind if I ask a > couple of questions. > > Are there any issues with it being internal, as with winmodems? > Does it steal much cpu (I hope to put this in a P60)? Have you looked at http://www.linuxdsl.co.uk yet? I can not imagine the card places much load on the cpu although it possibly has more latency than a dedicated router from what I have read. > The PDF techspec says "standard ATM driver" - does this take much > figuring out? Is it a kernel configuration issue? The gentlemen at http://www.linuxdsl.co.uk have what looks like a good installation guide. If you intend going with Debian may I recommend kernel-package as a way to compile the kernel you will require. > What spec PC do you have it in, and how many other NICs are there in it? > Does it provide any other services? How loaded does it get? You have implied that you intend having the machine as a dedicated router/firewall so, as I understand it, security considerations would mean you would not be providing any other services on that machine. Brian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
