Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 26/09/06, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 18:32:04 +0800,
I would suggest staying away from combined routers and modems.
I would prefer to not have the ISP have control over routing on my local
network. With your own router, you can filter traffic going to the modem
so that you don't leak stuff that you don't want to.
This also makes testing easier in the case where there are problems as
you
can pull the router and test the modem without any acls getting in the
way.
This can make diagnosing whose equipment is at fault simpler.
That is exactly what I'm trying to do! I suspect that my router is
faulty, and I want to diagnos it. That is why I must eliminate the
router and connect just by using the modem. How on earth can I do that
on Fedora? Where do I enter my ISP username and password? The ISP only
provids instructions on how to do that in Windows.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
I went through that exercise, a year or so ago, and found a LIVE CD to
be very handy. While setting up the PPPoE connection is really a
trivial matter, it's comforting (to me, at least) to know that any
changes I've made to a working system as well as any bad stuff that
might come into an exposed system will all be gone when I reboot.
(The problem wasn't my router, BTW...)
