On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 02:30, Brendan Dacre wrote: > Gentlepeople, > > For one reason or another I have decided rather ahead of my planned > schedule to go broadband (probably iiNet, comments...). > > I was planning to get a D-Link DSL-100D PCI internal ADSL modem which I > can pick up for about $170.
Don't. Pay the extra for an external modem. > Is this a good choice and does it work with linux and my proposed > service provider? Don't. It may work to some degree, but things like IPIP and GRE tunnelling seem to die in the arse for no obvious reason. > AFAIK, it acts as an ADSL (G.dmt or G.lite)/Ethernet bridge, is that > correct? Essentially, yes. > Am I making a mistake getting an internal ADSL modem, i.e. should I > consider one of those modem routers which are quite a bit more expensive? Yes, a mistake. > It will probably go directly on my gateway server initially, but maybe > it might be better to put it on and old 486... (thinking out loud) > > Any comments from anyone who has experience of these things would be > appreciated. If you're willing to run RedHat 6.2, then the binary module for 2.2 kernels will work. It doesn't seem to support tunnelling, as I said previously. Downing the itx interface that the driver provides also seems to cause the module, and TCP/IP in general, to do strange things(tm). As I'm trying to get this card working in a stable manner on a Debian box, which may be causing some of the oddities. I plan on trying to compile a more compatible kernel next week, when Telstra get around to making appropriate routing changes. I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who's gotten one of these cards working in a stable manner. Brad. -- Brad Thomson ph: 0421 920 497 [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.thewatch.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
