Hi, Thanks Eric,
That review says it does not do any NAT/firewalling. Whether that's true, who knows. "PPP Half Bridge and DHCP Spoof modes" is mentioned, but they might be talking about competitors there. It gives the WAN IP to a DHCP client that connects to it, which is what my cable box does for my bering box over ethernet. And the review has tested it with home cable routers. Apparently the big problem with home cable routers is bad DHCP implementation not handling short lease times. But my knowledge of all this bridging/PPPoA/PPPoE is non-existent. Apparently is has good phone tech support though. James. -----Original Message----- From: Erich Titl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 January 2004 07:55 To: James Neave; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Bering and the XModem James At 14:20 28.01.2004 +0000, James Neave wrote: >Hi all, > >Well, xDSL modems and Bering are hideous. UK modems use all different >sorts of chipsets for different ISPs, none of which has native support >for Bering (no nice LRPs). > >But I found this, and this looks good. > >http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2003/q3/xmodem.asp > >An ADSL modem with an Ethernet socket and a DHCP server in it. >But just to be sure (before we dish out the money) can anybody see any >glaring problems with this modem? >Anything that screams I Bite Linux. Not really, it does look rather like a router to me, seems to do NAT by itself. I would prefer a real bridge where the PPPoE could be handled by the Bering box. just my 0.02 Erich THINK P�ntenstrasse 39 8143 Stallikon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint: BC9A 25BC 3954 3BC8 C024 8D8A B7D4 FF9D 05B8 0A16 ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
