Broadband???

[Chuck Sterling]

Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:34:54 -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote
> 
>>Wolfgang Gill wrote:
>>
>>>Get yourself a Router (A D-Link DI-804HV comes to mind). And let the router do
>>>all the logging in and configuration for you.
>>
>>Thats fine for a simple NAT. For granularity and QoS, packet shaping 
>>for VoIP (vonage, etc), allowing true stateful packet filtering, 
>>port forwarding, etc; IPtables is a better solution.
>>
> 
> That's what I use as well. The features that are not required can be turned
> off. I use the software firewall in Linux (Iptables) and I have one on Windows
> (Not the windows crap version though) as well. But as for broadband
> configuration, I find an external router is much easier to configure. And
> since this one also has a 4 port switch, I can connect to other PC's on the
> LAN as well. Plus mine logs on for me as well, so, I don't have to write a
> script to do that for me.
> 
> Wolf
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I'm going to hijack this thread for a moment since it seems pertinent to 
a problem I'm having. If this is out of line, please feel free to flame 
or ignore me as suits the situation.

I have a DSL connection through QWest and a local ISP. Setting up the 
ActionTEC DSL modem using PPP0A and DHCP was trivial with Windows, as 
was the Linksys WRT54G four-port switch. Fairly painless other than the 
wireless, which I finally resolved to my satisfaction.

You may have noticed this is being posted from a WinXP system; this is 
because under FC3, installed with the DSL active, I can do simple 
network things like ping to, say, google or to my workplace, but cannot 
get a browser (firefox as delivered) or up2date or yum to work. I should 
have saved my routing table and other items before posting this, and 
presented them here for review, but did not think of it in time. I will 
boot up FC3 and grab that info and post it as a reply to this note.

I'm a bit confused and could use some help...

Be back soon.
Chuck Sterling