OT DSL modem / router suggestions and opinions

Sat Apr 15 02:00:51 UTC 2006

Jeff Boyce <jboyce at meridianenv.com> wrote: Greetings -

I am looking for suggestions and opinions regarding purchasing a reasonably 
priced DSL modem and NICs for my new home office network.  Can anyone offer 
any opinions of brands or models to that are reliable; or those that are 
particularly unreliable?

Jeff Boyce
www.meridianenv.com 
I have been using a Siemens SpeedStream 4100 for the last month with no problems.

 The "requirements" specified WinXX  --no mention of Linux whatsoever.   I only used the M$ oriented software to register and activate the connection to an initial partition with WinXP Home edition.

 Now I simply connect Fedora, Debian, and OpenSuSE 10.0 as (firewalled) DHCP clients.   You may want to use Coyote Linux as a Firewall and DHCP server on a machine with dual NICs; hence, you might connect the DSL modem as input into one NIC and connect a router to the output of the other NIC (towards your LAN).

 Good luck.

 Jose Refugio Rodriguez
 http://www.metztli-it.com