Brad, Edwin, Thankyou both for your emphatic replies. You seem to both be in agreement about the internal D-Link and Edwin has doubts about the Dynalink as well.
So, what external device would I get? The D-Link DSL-300 ADSL Ethernet Modem (approx $300) is one possibility which seems common and is explicitly supported by my proposed ISP. Another possibility is the D-Link DSL-504 ADSL Router with 4 Built-in Switched Ports (approx $400) which would mean I don't have to worry about drivers (the login software would be in firmware in the box itself, I presume) or setting up a gateway box. It does NAT and packet and socket filtering (fairly primitively I imagine) but it would be enough if you didn't plan to let any unsolicited traffic into your network. The drawback is that I would lose some of the functionality of the box if I wanted to create a DMZ for an externally available server. Suggestions about other models and brands would be appreciated. TIA. Brendan Brad Thomson wrote: (with some editing by me... Brendan) > On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 02:30, Brendan Dacre wrote: > >>Gentlepeople, >> >>For one reason or another I have decided rather ahead of my planned >>schedule to go broadband (probably iiNet, comments...). >> >>I was planning to get a D-Link DSL-100D PCI internal ADSL modem which I >>can pick up for about $170. > > > Don't. Pay the extra for an external modem. > > >>Am I making a mistake getting an internal ADSL modem, i.e. should I >>consider one of those modem routers which are quite a bit more expensive? > > > Yes, a mistake. > > > > Brad. > Edwin Humphries wrote: > We've used 2 internal modems, the one from D-Link and the other from Dynalink. They both use the > same chipset, but the D-Link driver for the 2.4.x kernel seems to result only in kernel panic; the > 2.2.x driver is fine, but obviously limits you as to what version of Linux you want to use; eg, no > iptables firewall on the gateway. The 2.4.x driver for the Dynalink modem seems to work OK - most > of the time. However, I'd have to say that in all the systems we've installed, external enternet > modems seem to be the most reliable - sometimes the internal modems fail to give a reliable > connection no matter what. > > On 22 Sep 2002 at 2:30, Brendan Dacre wrote: > > >>Gentlepeople, >> eetc... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
