Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:06:57 -0400 From: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is UPnP good for anything? Message-ID: <20020904150657.GA17187@tp.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200209041358.OAA04709@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <200209041358.OAA04709@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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Don't. Just get an ADSL modem, and use ipfw + natd (and PPPoE if necessary) to do anything the router would have done. If you really don't want to use FreeBSD for this task, the "cable/dsl" routers that talk to the modem via Ethernet and have 4 switched ports are so cheap that there is no reason to go for an integrated box. I just paid US$29.95 for a D-Link DI-604 for my daughter. But I'd much rather use one of my FreeBSD boxes - fewer security risks, more powerful firewall capability, better stability. On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 02:58:34PM +0100, Richard Tobin wrote: > I'm considering buying an ADSL router, ... -- Barney Wolff I'm available by contract or FT: http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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