Hi All,
I'm considering building a new router myself so it can run DNS / a proper firewall etc. Is anyone aware of a PCI(e|x) modem which will work with BT Infinity?
Cheers...
b0redom
Hi All,
I'm considering building a new router myself so it can run DNS / a proper firewall etc. Is anyone aware of a PCI(e|x) modem which will work with BT Infinity?
Cheers...
b0redom
A vdsl modem? Not seen one. I use the BT box that they installed, just doesn't seem worth fighting that part.
That gets you ethernet out, which usually goes to a router which is usually going to be a Linux box. I'm guessing this means that if you wanted to you could run PPPoE directly on an ethernet port on a Linux server and miss the router part out.
I run:
Phone line -> VSDL box -> Router -> *DMZ switch, stuff like WiFi can connect here* -> Server -> Internal network switch.
So I get
* dual firewalls, different so the same attack won't work on both.
* WiFi security isn't so important, because to get to the internal network would require a VPN.
* All stuff used is cheap off the shelf.
Yeah it is OTT for home use, but compared to the easy way of just having a home server plugged into a router all this really cost me is a cheap ethernet card.
If you want more flexibility from a standard router, have you looked at things like dd-wrt?
Here in the office we dont use the BT hub, just the VDSL box.
Phone -> VDSL box -> Firewall (does PPPoE) -> network.
Just put 2 ethernet cards in the computer, run a PPPoE client on it, and sorted.
At the moment I have:
Phone -> VDSL box -> Draytek 2820Vn -> network.
It works OK, but ideally I wanted to have something like:
Phone -> Device -> network
As I did when I had standard ADSL2+ - just to cut down on the number of devices which are always on. I could go for an all in one Draytek VDSL device, but ideally I'd like something which is handing out DHCP addresses etc to act as a DNS server too. Seems a bit dumb having two independent devices doing 2 parts of the same job.
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