Re: [ILUG] Re: [OT] more DSL

From: Matthew French (mfrench42 at domain yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Tue 10 Sep 2002 - 12:39:36 IST


Vincent Cunniffe responded:
> That's only if the router can actually route, as opposed to bridging.

Hmm. Interesting question. But it seems to me that this box is actually
routing, not bridging or doing a proxy ARP. It appears to support RIP, so I
would guess that it does actually route.

> However, Eircom's hardware will not provide such routing.

Well, we got this hardware from Eircom.

Personally, my preference was to have a Linux (or BSD) box connected to a
basic ADSL modem, that could then do routing and firewalling as needed. But
we have a good firewall already and it worked out cheaper to buy Eircom's
ADSL router. (Seriously!)

- Matthew

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