[ale] pppoe router recommendations

[Mike Still]

well this xmas i decided to junk my openbsd based firewall with a
wireless router thingie.  i first got an smc barricade model that had 2
wireless interfaces giving you 22mbps if your card supported it, but i
never could get it to work with my bellsouth dsl.  i believe the problem
was that this particular model doesn't remember the pppoe passwd and
never auths with BS.  so i switched it out with a netgear mr814 and was
surfing in less than 10 mins after opening the box.  all web configured
so i didn't even have to bother with winblows.  if you don't want
wireless then i think there's an equivalent version that doesn't have
it.

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 17:40, David Corbin wrote:
> I used to have bellsouth DSL, using my linux firewall and pppoe.  I got 
> it working though I have to admit it seemed a little odd.  But I had 
> real reliability problems -  something would die somewhere, and 
> eventually, the pppoe daemon would die.  And I'd restart it by hand.  
> Eventually, I built a fairly ugly conglomeration of scripts to try to 
> keep things running smoothly.
> 
> Now, thanks to DirectTV, I'm going to go back to Bellsouth for DSL 
> service. I plan on buying an inexpensive router that will handle the 
> pppoe crap for me.  (this will also give me a real DMZ, instead of a 
> pretend one I have now).  The question is, what brand/model do you 
> recommend?  I'd definately like something that works with ddclient, 
> efficiently....
> 
> David
> 
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Mike Still <MikeS at McBurney.com>

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