[ALUG] BT Home Hub

[mephi]

The home hub is designed as a box for the 99% of people who just want access
to the internet, and don't know things about IP ports, NAT, QoS, etc.

If you want a box that you can play with or configure then get something
else the Home Hub is not for you.

Personally, I run IP cop on an old 500Mhz AMD K6-2, and it runs great :-)
I can tweak it to do loads of different things, it does NAT, QoS, Port
forwarding, IPsec, VPN tunnels, multiple domains (I have a green(lan),
blue(wireless) and orange(dmz) domain), IPsec, Squid and lots more.

Matt

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From: main-bounces at lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces at lists.alug.org.uk]
On Behalf Of mbm
Sent: 21 November 2007 21:46
To: main at lists.alug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [ALUG] BT Home Hub

Please, please, anyone using a BT Home hub do yourself a big favour and
stop right now. Go out and buy a decent router that BT don't control. I
spent some long time earlier this year playing with the hub and
everything that I found bothered me (and others with whom I
corresponded). The is a crippled Thomson router which is locked to BT's
network. They routinely update the software remotely without your
agreement. You can lock it down to prevent this, but frankly why bother
- just buy a decent router.

I documented this at
http://baldric.net/2007/01/22/bt-home-hub-and-the-gpl/. That post also
points to comments from me (and many others with similar experiences -
see Kai Robinson in particular) on a good site called homehubblog. See
for example
http://www.homehubblog.com/2006/12/23/christmas-present-from-bt/.

Mick

>Ill have a look when I get home, but Ive done exactly the same thing
>as you and I can access my apache webserver ok. The only slight
>difference is that I use dydns name instead of IP address but this is
>the same.
>Also I had no idea it was possible to access the BT home hub
>management interface from the internet. That is rather worrying
>considering how often it resets itself and port forwarding rules
>disappear,

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