On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:20:52 +0100
Gustavo Homem <[email protected]> wrote:
> Configuring their modem as a bridge will bring the public IP to the soekris
> box
> which makes port forwarding way easier, pushing most work (nat, routing) to a
> solid soekris box running a stable OS and less work to the cheap and perhaps
> not so stable modem you're using.
This is not always desired and definitly not always stable. I used such a
setup with an zyxel router/modem back in the old days. For some reason, the
zyxel would lock up once a month, not passing any packets anymore, while all
counters said that everything is normal and that it is indeed passing packages
trough it. The only way out of it was power cycling the bridge (the reset
function didnt help).
Since then i'm using various PCI adsl cards with resulted in
1) control over the status of the ADSL line (ie i know when the signal gets
worse)
2) control over the ADSL modem within the OS (aka easy reset by reloading
the drivers, which, interestingly was never necessary)
Which led to zero modem related downtime in the last 7 or 8 years.
Attila Kinali
--
Why does it take years to find the answers to
the questions one should have asked long ago?
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