FINALLY have the DSL working sorta-kinda at the new office. I did not want to use the standard/only Actiontec PK5000, so I bought a simpler Actiontec GT701D, and the network is now running with that.
BTW, I looked around inside with telnet with username admin, and the admin password. It is running a Monte Vista 2.4.17 kernel, with Busybox on a 160MHz MIPS cpu, 16MB RAM. One can look in the proc tables to find the pppd password and other goodies. Anyway, I'm learning about Qwest/CenturyLink DSL, and PPPoE and such. I want to firewall my system with an Alix (which will do internal DNS, split off a DMZ with occasional bandwidth throttling for PTP wireless, terminate VPN links, etc.). It appears possible (but not necessarily easy or prudent) to run the Actiontec in bridge mode, instead of it as a NAT/DNS/DHCP box. I would use the Alix for most of the work, and transition to IPv6 at the Alix end in a year or three. I assume I can run pppd from the Alix instead, using something resembling the pppd command that the Actiontec is using. But is this wise? Pluggers have been talking about DSL and PPP and bridge mode on the list for a decade now. Some of you might have useful suggestions about how I should proceed for the next decade. Suggestions? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
