> So your advice for anyone contemplating ADSL would be an architecture
> something like
>
>
> BT
> |
> |
> DSL router/hub (such as Dlink)
> |
> Firewall box (eg cheap x86 running some sort of BSD or Linux)
> |
> Hub
> / | \
> Stuff
Paul Civati has some good documentation about this sort of thing.
It's specifically aimed at people using Blueyonder's cable modems, but
the principles behind it are exactly the same.
http://www.xciv.org/byhsi/
> If the firewall box has (or can be fitted with) several
> internal interfaces,
> is it a viable, cheap and secure system to also use it as a hub?
Yes. Although by the time you've bought a couple of decent network cards
for the firewall box you've probably spent about the same amount as you
would for a 6 or 8 port netgear hub (and I doubt you'll get 6 or 8 ports
in the firewall box without going to quad-ethernet cards, which would
probably be very silly<tm>).
N
PS: Unless you wanted to provide public wireless access, or something.
At which point you'd definitely want to do that through an
additional NIC on the firewall box.
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