This one time, at band camp, Amanda Wynne wrote: >I'm looking at getting an Alcatel Pro. Currently running a P120 with Freesco >via dialup.
I'd recomend the DSL-300 from D-Link. There it maintains the authentication and you just plugin a cat5 crossover to your system. On the system it's connected to, you just use dhcp to configure the IP address on it. >What I'm thinking of doing, if it's possible (this was going to be my next >question) is change the Freesco box to bridge mode, feeding the alcatel, with >my web server (yet another box) hanging off the alcatel. That way my Lan is >effectively double-firewalled. 'double-firewalled' is really not going to mean much. I refuse to say free-->SCO<-- is a good idea. Cheers, Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug