I have the westell modem and it causes me no harm. I have a linux firewall and so I setup the westell modem into bridge mode and let my firewall deal with authentication. Of course Bellsouth won't give customer server anymore... <sarcasm>what a loss</sarcasm>.
If you're interested, this article explains how to do it: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/6405 -Andrew On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 11:53, Mark Kempster wrote: > Dan Monjar wrote: > > --On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:06:19 AM -0400 Mark Kempster > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I'm running a Westell modem (A90-210030-04) > > > > > > Is that the little white brick? > > That's the one. > > > > That is the one I have now, it replaced > > a wider, thinner, black one... Alcatel I think. I liked the black one > > 'cuz it had more blikin' lights. > > I was foolish enough to think I could swap out my old blue modem > (from what ended up being DirectTV) with the white one from BellSouth > (naive, I know), and things completely fell apart for a day. > > I figured the westell-as-shipped was designed to be plugged in directly > to a single machine, and if you want the connection-sharing stuff, you > were supposed to pay BS an extra $10 (or so) a month. Bah to that! > > Cheers > - mark -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
