On Thu, 3 January, 2008 11:17 am, Matthew wrote:

Hi all, Apologies for mixing topics but I have two questions that don't really warrant separate mails.

I'm having terrible trouble finding an ADSL ethernet modem. I currently have a regular home-office modem/router forwarding all traffic (with NAT) to the external interface of a Debian box with a soft firewall/router, but there's some SIP testing I need to do that would rather I had only one layer of NAT. Reviews at online suppliers generally seem to consider the Netgear DM111P and the D-Link DSL300-T to be troublesome, while the Draytek Vigor 100 is so expensive that it's something of a last resort.

I have a DSL300-T, I used it for quite a while in bridge mode, and just had my Linux box do PPPoE, worked fine, never had any issues with it.

What is everyone else using to connect Linux firewall/routers to ADSL? Can I even rely on a modem to maintain a connection suitable for remote access? I'd prefer a PPPoA-PPPoE bridge to a USB modem, although I do have a Sagem F@st kicking around that I might try.

I also at one point used a PCI ADSL card, I think it was a Connexant chipset, also worked very well, again the Linux box is doing all of the PPPoE stuff. I plan to do this again after I've rewired my house, so that I can get rid of all of those little bits of hardware that don't do exactly what I want, and have a single neat solution under the stairs.

Alternatively, if anyone has had any success getting a UK Speedtouch 530v4 into a bridging mode I could try that. I've found a lot about it on the forums of Australian ISPs but the UK version of the firmware doesn't seem to support it.

The second one: Can anyone recommend an online backup/storage provider that supports sensible (non-proprietary) backup protocols (e.g. rsync over ssh)?

Dunno! :)

Cheers.

-Mark

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If you can find them (a quick Google didn't come up with much) we've has success with the Huawei 880 and 882 modems in bridge mode. They run a little warm, but other than that we've not had any problems with them.

Matt

-----Original Message----- From: main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Matthew Sent: 03 January 2008 11:18 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Modems and online backups: recommendations?

Hi all, Apologies for mixing topics but I have two questions that don't really warrant separate mails.

I'm having terrible trouble finding an ADSL ethernet modem. I currently have a regular home-office modem/router forwarding all traffic (with NAT) to the external interface of a Debian box with a soft firewall/router, but there's some SIP testing I need to do that would rather I had only one layer of NAT. Reviews at online suppliers generally seem to consider the Netgear DM111P and the D-Link DSL300-T to be troublesome, while the Draytek Vigor 100 is so expensive that it's something of a last resort. What is everyone else using to connect Linux firewall/routers to ADSL? Can I even rely on a modem to maintain a connection suitable for remote access? I'd prefer a PPPoA-PPPoE bridge to a USB modem, although I do have a Sagem F@st kicking around that I might try.

Alternatively, if anyone has had any success getting a UK Speedtouch 530v4 into a bridging mode I could try that. I've found a lot about it on the forums of Australian ISPs but the UK version of the firmware doesn't seem to support it.

The second one: Can anyone recommend an online backup/storage provider that supports sensible (non-proprietary) backup protocols (e.g. rsync over ssh)?

Thanks, Matthew

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