Re: ADSL modem/router, routing protocols and the Linux kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Noam Meltzer
I have the BFocus 312+ at my parents place. It's a chip box which doesn't do much more than the default config. It can't do UPNP (even though you can activate it in the web), I assume it can't really do RIP. It is low on CPU and RAM (so NAT + P2P file sharing will almost suffocate it). And... for

Re: ADSL modem/router, routing protocols and the Linux kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/05/07, Dan Shimshoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have two questions: 1) Suppose I will enable routing (RIPv2). Is it a good thing to do ? What are the benefits of doing so? By doing so, does that mean that the routing tables in the kernel will be updated from time to time by the user-spa

ADSL modem/router, routing protocols and the Linux kernel

2007-05-12 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hello, I am connected to the Internet through bezeq ; my modem/router is BFocus 312+ (ECI). I had performed telnet to the BFocus 312+ (telnet 10.0.0.138, Admin/Admin). It is a Linux-based machine, running 2.4.17-based kernel, as cat /proc/version shows (more precisely, 2.4.17_mvl21-malta-mips_f