[plug] OT: DLS-300 ADSL modem

[Paul Dean]

Hya Russell,

Your welcome.

Glad I could help.


On 9 May 2002, Russell Steicke wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 09:30, Paul Dean wrote: 
> > Hya Russell,
> > 
> > Pardon me for asking, but why do you want a hardware device to port
> > forward when you can get your Linux firewall to do the same thing and
> > more secure way too.
> 
> OpenBSD, actually, but I see your point. 
> 
> > Also I don't think iiNet like you changing the hardware config of the
> > modem as it is used as an bridged device, meaning they don't send
> > packets to the modem but to the ethernet device.
> 
> Aha!  This was the information I was missing, not realising that this
> hardware was a bridge, not a router.  Thank you.
> 
> 
> 

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