On 2014/04/25 10:13, mediomen27 wrote: > Thank you very much for your answer and I am sorry for the late. > I don't like very much router-on-pci-card and I would like to buy a > pure adsl modem like traverse solos. > > But is "Traverse Solos" supported under obsd ?
No, it is not. > Also solos seems EOL because I have not found it anymore on the site. Correct it is EOL, they are now only doing the Geos (which is a soekris-like board with a built-in ADSL chip, not a separate PCI card). > About separate adsl router I think they are pretty unsafe and very easy > download the firmware from the vendor site, hack it and flash the > device. And all the home adsl router u can find are linux based with > all security problems that linux has. > For these reasons I want make my own obsd router but what other choice > I have to connect it to an adsl ?? > it's very strange to have so many problems to make a router under > openbsd when it should born for it. Personally I use an external router configured as a bridge, and configure pppoe on the OpenBSD side (with baby jumbos and RFC4638 where possible to avoid getting a restricted MTU). That way the router doesn't have external IP connectivity thus avoiding many of the problems you might run into, and meaning that any complex configuration is done on the OpenBSD box; it's then also pretty easy to swap out a spare router in case of hardware failure (which in my experience is more likely to occur for something that connects to a phone line). Even with something like the Solos you still have hardware running some proprietary firmware/dsp code on a processor with potential for bugs. Mind you, it's even the same for a lot of ethernet NICs...
