On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kent Fredric wrote:
Generally, these devices provide full DHCP, DNS,NTP, Port/Host based routing/firewalling etc, and all users are NAT'ed behind it. Generally, the modem handles all the potentially difficult nasties of gettting the PPP stuff underway, and you cant even tell what your external IP is unless you query the modems web interface. To the user, you can just be 192.168.1.50, and the modem can be 192.168.1.1, and the modem being the default gateway, and all the rest is handled by NAT magic.
So this means that all firewalling is made by the router, who knows with what software...
That said, i have one reason why I myself would like a box i crafted myself with a PCI modem in it, and thats primarily so i can implement routing, traffic monitoring and the like more configurably, and in my experience, some modems are often 'poxy' and can crash occasionally as a result of using bittorrent. ( I have the modem set to send its syslog errors to my linux boxes syslog and its full of MASQUERADE: No route: Rusty's brain broke! )
Yes... I doubt a router-embedded firewall will allow me to configure it as I want.
Thank you for your input. -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
