Subj : Re: ADSL in LAN
To   : Udo Zaydowicz
From : George Fliger
Date : Sun Jun 11 2000 01:04 am

On 10 Jun 12 08:38am, Udo Zaydowicz wrote to Leonard Erickson:

 UZ> Hej Leonard!

 UZ> Leonard Erickson -> Udo Zaydowicz, 09.06.2000: "ADSL in LAN"

 LE>  -=> Quoting Udo Zaydowicz to all <=-

 UZ> [...]
 LE> You'll get an interface box. They may also offer a NIC, but
 LE> I'm sure you've got lots of those. :-)

 UZ> Ah, now I understand, what was meant, when the service line was
 UZ> talking about "ADSL-modem" and "interface card".

 UZ> [...]
 LE> Here's where it gets tricky. You *could* hook it up to a
 LE> hub. But doing so will make your LAN acessible from the
 LE> Internet.

 UZ> Yes, not a good idea.

 LE> The best way to deal with this is to set up a system as a
 LE> firewall, and use two NICs in it. One for the ADSL\, and
 LE> one for your LAN. With the firewall software filtering the
 LE> packets that go between them.

 UZ> That is what I'm going for.

 UZ> Thanks a lot!

Or, you could spend the extra $$$ and get a Linksys 10/100BaseT
Switch/ADSL router and set up firewalling inside the router.  Takes care
of the firewalling, is a switch instead of a hub (faster), eliminates
the second card and the software for proxying (I'm guessing you'll use
something like Wingate?).

The Linksys switch/router runs somewhere around $179US mailorder.

George


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