On 19/12/2007, Rob Page page.rob@gmail.com wrote:
Jenny,
Otherwise can anyone advise a asb adsl modem they do know to work, other than the now unavailable 'speedtouch'?
I have a speedtouch you can have if you want.
Thanks, Rob! I also got offered one on irc. This made me wonder why people are getting rid of them - are they unreliable? (Not that I dismiss your most generous offer :-)) Your irc reply was " if the modem is connected via usb people on the USB tend to be able to use that IP to connect directly to your machine".
Our current set-up is that the adsl modem router has the external IP talking to the outside world, it then passes everything to the DMZ where we have the internal LAN interface IP, which talks to an ethernet card on that address in the server. It then knows to pass things to an address given to a second ethernet card on that server which is our LAN.
Not sure how PPP over a usb adsl modem works with regards to the above, but it's obviously not preferred over the traditional modem-router method.
Thanks,
Jenny