On Sun 2007-04-08 at 23:37, NTP Manager wrote: > Hans wrote: > > Last week I switched to another ADSL-provider (cheaper, faster, better(?)). > > With the new connection I got another modem. The modem (ST WL780i) allows > > only
A subject way out of the range of the time-managers list but it is possible
(usually, depends on the flexibility of your adsl provider and/or your
willingness to do some serious config-hacking) to set up a speedtouch modem
not to terminate the adsl-pppoa session itself but forward it as a pptp
connection. This means you 'move' the endpoint to your linux or freebsd
server and run a pptp client there. That gives you all the control over the
endpoint you need (with masquerading, routing, traffic shaping). This means
you will need to leave something running 24/7 but you needed that anyway
for ntp serving. With the endpoint in the (ntp) server you will not notice
any problem with 'session' tables filling up.
You will need:
1) the pptp client for your OS
2) a second network card in the server for your internal net
3) a full firewalling / masquerading router setup because your server is
now directly exposed to the outside world
4) the .ini file to tell your modem to do pptp to your provider
5) a number of hours time to get all this working
(there is an advanced hack where you set up the speedtouch to do some weird
routing so your server has a pointopoint ethernet with its own public
address on the outside, but I can only find documentation for that hack in
Dutch)
Koos van den Hout
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