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Re: DSL Woes, part Deux
« on: November 08, 2002, 04:39:42 AM »
Most routers (outside of Cisco's which you won't be buying anyway :) are configured via a web browser. You should be okay without a PC.  If you have an old PC lying around, you could set up Linux on it and use iptables instead of a dedicated hardware router. Since you have a static IP address, you could also do lots of other cool stuff with the Linux box. I was lucky when I got my Bellsouth DSL that they weren't doing PPPoE yet, so I've got a static IP as well. Been running my website, mail server, ftp server, Samba domain controller, telnet/ssh server, router, firewall and more off of the Linux box ever since. Only had to reboot if the power has gone out (well, that and installing newer versions of Mandrake, and then only because I felt like it. :)
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