New modem and iptables...

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Oct 22 09:05:39 UTC 2007


Antonio wrote:
> 2007/10/22, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>:
>> Antonio wrote:
>>> 2007/10/21, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>:
>>>> Antonio wrote:
>>>>> I installed a new modem ADSL2+ that doesn' t need pppo any longer
>>>>> because it starts connection by himself
>>>>>
>>>> I expect your "modem" is actually a router, and that you can just turn
>>>> your Linux firewall off. The router performs firewall and NAT functions
>>>> that are perfectly adequate for most people.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> John
>>>>
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>>>>
>>> no...when I say modem,I mean modem, even if can start connection by itself...
>>> What is funny is that it has a DHCP server even if it has just a
>>> single Ethernet port  :-)
>> I have a so-called modem, but it really is a router. Like yours, it has
>> a single ethernet port. Mine's an iconnect 622, and it does pppoe,
>> pppoa, dhcp, dns relay and some other stuff. However, I set it to
>> bridging mode and do the pppoe myself.
>>
>> If you want to persuade me it's a modem, better name it;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Cheers
>> John
>>
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> John
> 
> mine is a D-link 320T. I still assume that is a modem, I do not see
> any firewall or DNS stuff.
> But I forgot that any Save and reboot option (button) with this series
> of D-link (same for wireless router) is not working if you connect by
> Firefox (at least in Linux) but it is o.k. by Windows Explorer (so I
> had to recconnect a Windows laptop to save settings and reboot modem):
> I assumed to have settings for Ppoe but it was not true!!! Tnx for
> help

I can't find it at dlink.com, can you?



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