[ILUG] iol broadband

[Denis Hennessy]

I'm not familiar with that particular but here are the principles that 
should apply:

    * It's easier to use the ethernet port to connect. That way you can
      connect directly while you get it all going and then connect it to
      your firewall. The only downside is that you have to buy a extra
      network card.
    * You can use either bridged or routed modes. The first is a bit
      harder to set up but makes it easier to set up inbound port
      mappings. The second is slightly more secure since inbound packets
      have to traverse two NAT layers.
    * It's probably not hard to switch later if you want to experiment.

/dh

olearypj at rte.ie wrote:

>Hi,
>   Just taken delivery of my esat/bt broadmodem box of tricks & was reading 
>through the paperwork about setting it up.At the moment I have an old P11 
>running Smoothwall, a hub & 3 clients, dial on demand with a 65k modem in the 
>Smoothwall box. I'd like to continue to use this setup with the ADSL modem, but 
>I'm not sure about a few things with the ADSL modem, its a ZYLEX Prestige with 
>ethernet & usb. I guess its a better idea to connect it to the smoothwall box 
>using the ethernet port? also as I already use the smoothwall box to do nat, do 
>i set the ADSL modem to work in bridge mode?, & finally is it ok to continue to 
>use my fixed ip's & disable DHCP in the modem?
>Any help would be much appreciated
>
>Pat
>
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