From owner-freebsd-net Wed Sep 4 8:34: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 067A337B401 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:34:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk [129.215.144.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAAA43E4A for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 08:34:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk) Received: (from richard@localhost) by rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA08627; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:33:59 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 16:33:59 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <200209041533.QAA08627@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> From: Richard Tobin Subject: Re: Is UPnP good for anything? To: Barney Wolff , Richard Tobin In-Reply-To: Barney Wolff's message of Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:06:57 -0400 Organization: just say no Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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