[HECnet] new vdsl router

[Brian Hechinger]

What I wouldn't give to be and to put this piece of junk from AT&T into
bridging mode (or better yet get rid of it completely)

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019, 17:20 Paul Koning <paulkoning at comcast.net wrote:

>
>
> > On Jan 11, 2019, at 2:51 PM, Hans Vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> >
> > The good news is that the local telephone exchange got upgraded. So
> finally, after 15 years ADSL could be upgraded to VDSL. Now we have 100
> Mb/s down and 29 Mb/s up, which used to be 10 Mb/s and 0.6 Mb/s
> respectively. And that for €6 per month more. Everybody happy.
> >
> > Except my A44RTR simh VAX which feels kind of lonely suddenly. The new
> vdsl modem has no port forwarding. The bridge program does no longer work.
> >
> > What alternative(s) do I have?
> > Hans
>
> Does the modem include the router function?  If you can make it be just a
> modem -- pretending to be connected to a single computer without any
> forwarding needed -- you can hook it to a Linux box configured as NAT
> gateway, IPtables firewall, etc.  I have that setup here (except that it's
> a cable modem; DSL has never been an option anywhere around here).  Works
> great, and it also lets me throw in additional oddball services like my own
> Subversion server.
>
>         paul
>
>
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