[plug] ADSL modem/switch

[Bill Pickett]

I have a Netgear DG814.  I aslo have a p166mmx 64mb 2x10/100 NIC's which I
run Smothwall "orient" on.  www.smoothwall.org

The red NIC on my smoothy is assigned an IP from the DG814 by DHCP
192.168.1.x and is plugged into a port on DG814

The green NIC on my smoothy has a static IP address and is used as the
gateway for my network 192.168.0.x and is plugged in to a port in 10/100 8
port switch.  I have a Debian woody box, a RH9 box, 2 x WINXP (gamers) and
this laptop (WINXP) all with static IP 192.168.0.x plugged into this switch.

This setup works fine.  Only been down when the UPS ran out of batteries the
other sat night or when I feel the need to play with the hardware.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Sham Chukoury [mailto:chukours at ses.curtin.edu.au] 
Sent: Saturday, 16 August 2003 8:05 PM
To: PLUG
Subject: Re: [plug] ADSL modem/switch


On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 18:47, Quintin Lette wrote:

<snip>

> As for the pulsar PCI adsl modem, you may have issues with getting 3 
> pci cards
> working together in the P166 (although maybe not, and you can use ISA
network 
> cards too I guess) but it would make it possible to do things like proxy /

> firewall (a firewall isn't much good if its just a node in your network
you 
> really need the data to go through it).

Hmmm... What do you mean, 'issues with getting 3 pci cards working
together'? :P What sorts of issues?

/me thinks it's time for some ascii art..

Here's what I imagine the network topology to be, if i go for the custom
box:

                   +---------+                      +-----+
                   |         | 10/100MBps Ethernet  |     |
                   |         |--------------------->| [1] |
                   |  P166   |   (1 pci slot)       |     |
    phone line     | custom  |                      +-----+
------------------>|  adsl   |                      +-----+
 into Pulsar modem | gateway | 10/100MBps Ethernet  |     |
   (1 pci slot)    |(+proxy?)|--------------------->| [2] |
                   |         |   (1 pci slot)       |     |
                   +---------+                      +-----+