Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:33:59 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: Barney Wolff <barney@tp.databus.com>, Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is UPnP good for anything? Message-ID: <200209041533.QAA08627@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Barney Wolff's message of Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:06:57 -0400
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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. That's what I do at present, but I don't want to have the FreeBSD box on all the time. Also I want something silent and low-power. (An old laptop might be a reasonable way to do this if I had one.) > 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. Plus the cost of the modem of course. Are there cheap ADSL modems with ethernet connection that can do reasonable firewalling? Anyone have any comments on the specific question of UPnP? -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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