I'm currenty using a Linksys cable/DSL firewall router device. It's available in both a 1 LAN port and 4 LAN port flavor. Programming is by a small web server that answers only to the LAN side in the default configuration. SMC also has a similar device with 4 LAN ports and can support a regular modem as well as a cable or DSL unit. Both will do MAC address cloning and NAT. They also can run a DHCP server. I've used both brands and they seem to work fine. I still run firewall software on windows and lock down my Linux box, just in case the hardware firewall is not good enough.
You will need a windows system to do BIOS updates on either device, as the update program is windows based. WINE might work here, I haven't tried that. Good luck, Marc --- Roland Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it happens I do not have an internet connection > anymore. I was on the > AT&T Cable network and they were dropped by > Excite@home. When I get a > connection again I will begin to work on it then. I > am looking at using my > wife's connection to the internet using a router and > a hub. I will need to > wire up my home though, but that should not be do > bad. Dorie (my wife) has > Pac Bell ADSL. Any suggestions on a router? I am > looking towards using a > wireless connection as an alternative. I am however > very concerned about > security and lets face it WAP is not real security. > Thanks for the advice. > BTW I was not able to download the Kernal before I > lost connectivity :-( I > will have to wait on that also. > > Roland Minden > Telecom Coordinator > Office (916) 286-8999 > Fax (509) 275-2420 > Cell (916) 769-4368 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Newmiller > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 5:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Peters Kernal Update and a > Few Questions > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > begin: Roland Minden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quote > [...] > > > I am having some trouble with my internet > connection at home. I called > for > > > support and waited on hold for about 25 minutes > (no joke I timed it). > When I > > > got hold of AT&T they asked what Operating > system I had and as soon as I > > > said Linux they took this whole we can't help > you with anything > attitude. > > > They also said I should be using DHCP. So I > tried to set it up to use > DHCP > > > and it would not work. I get connected using the > static IP, but I am not > > > able to get my usual connection speed. My > connection speeds have been > really > > > crappy for about 3 weeks. I have a static IP and > have checked it out as > far > > > as settings and it looks good. I thought it > maybe be my cat5 cable so I > > > replaced it and it made little difference. At > work I use Windows NT with > HP > > > OpenView to trouble shoot our network > connections. Is there anything > like it > > > I can use with Linux? > > > > troubleshoot exactly what? what sorts of things > do they give info on? > i'd > > eat my hat if you couldn't do the same thing on > linux. > > Be careful, Pete. What you "can do" in Linux > sometimes requires that > someone create the software to do so, which at best > can take time. > This is particularly true in newer technologies like > ATM cards. > Fortunately, DHCP _is_ supported, but it is a fairly > complicated piece of > software that has had a history of signficant > updates so troubleshooting > requires that you be familiar with "normal" > networking under Linux as well > as that history. > > > > I can ping successfully to yahoo.com. I can send > and > > > receive email (though very slowly). I am > starting to babble now. Let me > know > > > what information to send or any advice on how to > deal with AT&T. I > thought > > > about telling them I have Winblows, but I would > rather not have to do > that. > > > > i'm sure it can be done, but i know literally > nothing about DHCP. i > don't > > even know what it stands for, although i can guess > that D=dynamic and > > P=protocol. :-) i'm sure there are people here > who use DHCP. anyone > > help here? > > The key for DHCP on Linux is dhclient, which > broadcasts requests (possibly > with identifying information such as an assigned > host name) and listens > for answers containing a wide variety of bits... ip > address, mask, dns > server addresses, wins servers, whatever. The newer > versions of dhclient > handle more bits, putting them in the right files > according to the > configuration of the client. > > While I have used it briefly on other people's > setups, I don't have > detailed experience with the mechanics of > troubleshooting it because I was > assigned a static IP by DCN. I guess you can read > http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/ and find out more, > but a grasp of the > fundamentals of network troubleshooting will be > required if the > out-of-the-box scripts don't work for you. Watch > the error messages, look > in the usual network configuration files after > dhclient gets an assignment > to see what the result was, use ping, ifconfig, > route -n, and so forth to > see what it did to the kernel. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeff Newmiller The ..... > ..... Go Live... > DCN:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basics: ##.#. > ##.#. Live Go... > Live: OO#.. > Dead: OO#.. 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