From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 29 17:37:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D4116A4CE for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:37:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.proficuous.com (www.proficuous.com [209.240.79.128]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1354043D4C for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:37:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ml@proficuous.com) Received: from [192.168.3.69] (aaron-workstation.proficuous.com [192.168.3.69]) by mail.proficuous.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71A83A894FD; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:37:16 -0500 (CDT) From: "Aaron P. Martinez" To: ian@codepad.net In-Reply-To: <37520.194.98.178.34.1099056689.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr> References: <200410291218.44989.ian@codepad.net> <37520.194.98.178.34.1099056689.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1099071474.18749.19.camel@aaron.proficuous.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:37:54 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making an ADSL Router X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:37:22 -0000 On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 08:31, Olivier Gautherot wrote: > Hi Xian! > > > I have a friend who's ADSL router has recently broken beyond repair. He > > also has a Free BSD machine that is on all the time so I thought that > > could become a router. > > I know I will need some kind of ADSL modem but I'm not really sure what > > I'm looking for. So any guidance will be greatly appreciated. > > I'm currently reading http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ > > handbook/ppp-and-slip.html > > If you want to go the easy way, take an Ethernet modem - connection to > Internet is a child's play. USB modems can be more of a chance, depending > on whether the appropriate driver is available. This may seem like the easy way but i would take another route. I have been using sangoma's internal adsl card for about 2 years now and it is flawless. You get tons more debugging information that you will get with any dsl modem on the market (stuff you can go to the isp and say...why is your router sending me these bogus packets). The other bonus of this is you have your Public ip right on your router/firewall...this way you don't have to mess with setitng up portforwarding/natting etc on whatever crappy OS they have in their POS dsl modem...you can use all of OBSD's funtionality for that. > > Things you may want to look at are "gateway", "ipfw" and "jail" if some > services need to be protected (http server, mail, etc.) > > If you want state-of-the-art security, 2 network cards would be ideal > but for a home network, you can easily get away with 1. > > Cheers > Olivier > Aaron