Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 26/09/06, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> 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...)