Kyle wrote:
** It seems pretty much every ADSL2 modem is also a router these days and thus has an ethernet port. Of course, that also means you need another power outlet as opposed to powering over USB like the Alcatel stingray did.
Most ADSL modems these day are designed to be wireless routers. So powering them separately makes sense. You don't want to have to turn a computer on to power the wireless to be able to use a different computer. If you buy a router without wireless, it's really just the wireless design but lacking the wireless components. I've never had trouble with Linux and a router with an ethernet port. I've always had trouble with routers with USB ports (and not just limited to Linux, but Vista and MacOS as well). As for port forwarding versus PPPOE from a Linux server, it really depends what you want to do. I do PPPOE myself so I can offer IPv6 and videoconferencing to users of my House Area Network. But it's a lot more complex to set up than configuring port forwarding (since you've also got to set up the server to do DHCP and NAT). -- Glen Turner <http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
