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From: "Ian Drake, IT, SE Dunbartonshire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SLUG (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:52 AM
Subject: [scottish] ADSL/USB
> Morning all,
>
> got ADSL installed yesterday, it's great, I'm loving the broadband
> revolution.
>
> Problem is that the USB modem use PPoPa which I know nothing about, and to
> tell the truth I have never used anything more complicated than a mouse
> plugged into a USB port (under Linux anyways).
>
> So I'm putting some feelers out to find out if anyone has any advice on
> setting up a NAT server running Linux.
> I downloaded both ISO images for Mandrake 8.0 (kernel 2.4 I think). Anyone
> got any ides on the next steps?
>
> I'm looking for info on the following topics:-
>
> SpeedTouch modem drivers
> USB Config and running
> PPoPa
> MASQ under 2.4 (I've heard it can do full NAT so DCC would work on private
> to public side)
> Port forwarding (use bizarre ports so that an incoming connection on port
X
> of the external side would be forwarded to port 23 of a machine on the
> private side of the network)
> and general advice on firewalling under 2.4
over at the SmoothWall project, some folk have managed to graft the Roaring
Penguin code onto the existing 2.2.18 configuration, and others are working
on getting the Speed Touch working without using the poorly licensed Alcatel
drivers where possible ... Hopefully something more concrete will appear
soon :)
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