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RE: [PLUG] Linksys and DSL
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of Doug Crompton
>Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 1:13 AM
>To: Phila Linux Users Group
>Subject: [PLUG] Linksys and DSL
>
>Continuing with my DSL questions to the list...
>
>I have a Linksys BEFSR41 cable/DSL router which at the moment I am just
>using as a 4 port router. In reviewing the docs and internet info it
> appears that this is a very versatile box. It also has a Linux engine
and the
>code is downloadable. There was also an article on it in Linux Journal
a few months ago.
>
>It appears that this router would handle port forwarding.
>My question is if I were to use this box connected to (say)
> Verizon with a STATIC IP, let it handle PPOE, and connect
>my Linux server to it with a 192.168.x.x address, set port forwarding
>for DNS, Mail, Web, POP3 or any other service I want to provide to the
world - would this work?
>
>Now the question is why would I want to do this. I am not sure. It is
an option
>. Let the router be the front-end to everything and be the firewall.
>
>The other option of course is to connect the DSL modem directly to the
> Linux box, let it do PPOE, Firewall, and 192.168.x.x local routing out
a second ethernet port.
I would suggest using the LinkSys in front and certainly have it handle
DHCP. I have worked with a couple of Linksys devices in the BEF line,
and generally I haven't been impressed. Granted most of the ones I
worked with were running the 1.x firmware which is pre-Linux, and things
are better under the 2.x firmware (which is the Linux based one you
referred to above). The problem I got most frustrated with was a total
unwillingness for the BEF series gear to pass DHCP requests across (even
with all it's fire walling disabled). That's led to a situation in a
couple of our offices where we have a firewall doing DHCP within a
firewall doing DHCP. This was supposed to be fixed in the newer
firmware, but I didn't have any luck on the one occasion I was working
on it. Granted I was working with a user over the phone with a device I
had never seen outside of screenshots in the documentation, so it
wouldn't be shocking to discover I missed something.
Aaron
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