At 10:39 PM -0500 12/1/04, after patiently answering my DSL questions, Bill Cole stated: >At 6:33 PM -0700 12/1/04, Warren Michelsen imposed structure on a stream of >electrons, yielding: > >>Will a LinkSys BEFSR41 or BEFSX41 do it? > >This is where things get screwy. I am not familiar with either of those so I >went to the Linksys site, and I see things they give names like "Cable/DSL >Router" which is simply confusing.
Exactly. Much of the manufacturers' publicity regarding these devices made me believe that people with DSL simply had an Ethernet feed coming from their DSL modem. I came to equate DSL router with Ethernet router. Thanks for setting me straight. >From what I can tell, those particular devices look to be more oriented >towards protecting a home network from the miscreants inside rather than from >known miscreants outside. It looks like you'd have to hack something up like >adding static routes to their address space with bogus gateways, which is a >nice functional traditional way to do IP blocking, but it a bit of an >unobvious hack. However, take a look at <http://www.efficient.com/subscriber_networks/5781.shtml>. On page 2 of their PDF data sheet (<http://www.efficient.com/subscriber_networks/pdf/efficientnetworks-5781.pdf>) they clearly show the 5781 interposed between the DSL modem and a client's network. Even the SS2604 SpeedStream is Ethernet to Ethernet: * Model: SS2604 * Speed: 10/100 Mbps * Interface specifications: Internet/WAN: 10 Mbps Ethernet, RJ-45; LAN: 4 ports at 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, RJ-45; * LED indicators: Power, Link/activity, status, print activity, print error, Internet, Wireless and LAN (connection, activity and speed) * Compatibility: PC, Macintosh * Ports: 1-WAN port, 4-LAN ports, 1-printer port * Port type: Ethernet, (RJ-45) * Integrated firewall . * Reset button and normal/uplink switch. * You can set up a network printer at home! So I guess I just have to be sure that the WAN side is not a DSL (phone line) type connection, I guess. And, of course, that the firewall functions will do what I want. ;) ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
