[CALUG] modems for Linux

Fri Aug 18 21:02:37 CDT 2006

Good Evening,

	I got my FIOS a while ago and I have a different story to tell.

	I had comcast cable connected to a linux firewall eth0 with the eth1  
card connected to my internal hub.  Worked great with dhcp from comcast.

	Now with FIOS - you have PPPOE.   I get the 15 up and 2 down, real  
sweet.  The router that they provide is 'special', I tried to replace  
it and my firewall with numerous different router/firewall  
appliances.  Bottom line, none of them gave me the speed of the silly  
DLimk.  Reason is the, according to verizon tech support, the DLink  
that they supply (nothing off the shelf)  has special code burned  
into it that gives it that speed.    So I hook the fios to the  
DLink,  my firewall eth0  to the DLink and the eth1 to the multiport  
hub.  Everything works well and good speed.

	Hope this helps.  If anyone knows anything different I am open to  
trying something else.

	Abraham

	Verizon
On Aug 18, 2006, at 10:05 AM, Eldon Ziegler wrote:

> Great, glad to hear it.
>
> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 23:10 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> I just got my FIOS install today.  The tech insisted a router was  
>> necessary
>> and left me with one.  He was unsure how to deal with multiple  
>> static IPs
>> through the router.  The answer was simple, remove the router and  
>> use a
>> switch.
>>
>> By the time it gets to the router, it's just Ethernet and so you  
>> can do
>> whatever you would normally do with static IP addresses on  
>> Ethernet.  The
>> first thing I did was set up an new Linux server and it all went very
>> smoothly.
>>
>> Scott K
>>
>> On Thursday 17 August 2006 21:14, Eldon Ziegler wrote:
>>> The reason that was given was that the TV guide came out the RF  
>>> feed on
>>> the router. Without their router you lost the TV guide.
>>>
>>> However, I soon found that a static IP address is not available with
>>> "residential" service; I had to switch to "business" service to  
>>> get a
>>> static IP address. Actually, I got five static IP addresses. The
>>> downside is that you can't have TV with business service. Since I no
>>> longer have TV there might not be a reason to stick with their  
>>> router
>>> but I haven't pursued that yet. I too found the router interface  
>>> to be
>>> clunky and non-intuitive.
>>>
>>> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 06:51 -0400, CardinalZin at verizon.net wrote:
>>>> Eldon,
>>>>    Why would you have to use their router?
>>>> They just bring ethernet inside and run it to the router.
>>>> As I recall, they won't replace the router if it dies,
>>>> so that kinda implies that there's nothing special about it.
>>>> I do know that I seriously dislike the many-tiered menu
>>>> system that hide all the freaking settings.
>>>>
>>>>>>> Cardinal Zin  <<<
>>>>
>>>> Every shot counts. The three-foot putt is just as important as
>>>> the 300-yard drive.
>>>> --Henry Cotton (1907-1987)
>>>>
>>>> Too late, Eldon Ziegler wished to retract:
>>>>> With Verizon's fiber service you have to use their router. It's  
>>>>> not a
>>>>> bad one but I was accustomed to my Linux router. The 15 down /  
>>>>> 2 up
>>>>> Mbps speed is great though.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 00:54 -0400, Kelly Price wrote:
>>>>>> On 8/17/06, Keith <pdragon at pdragon.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> Every cable/dsl modem from regular commercial providers  
>>>>>>> (Comcast,
>>>>>>> Cox, Verizon, Speakeasy, etc) I've come across works fine just
>>>>>>> plugged straight into the lan jack. No cross-over cable or  
>>>>>>> drivers
>>>>>>> needed, Linux or Windows. This is, of course, not  
>>>>>>> recommended. Better
>>>>>>> to have a hardware router/firewall between you and the net,  
>>>>>>> even if
>>>>>>> it is only one computer.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Add Fiber Optics for that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you've got an old PC laying around not doing anything, you  
>>>>>>> can
>>>>>>> download IPCop <http://www.ipcop.org> and make your own  
>>>>>>> router. Did
>>>>>>> that myself with an old Pentium II system almost a year ago  
>>>>>>> and it
>>>>>>> works better than any commercial router I've ever used.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In a pinch, Slackware on an old Pentium 1 laptop and two ethernet
>>>>>> PC-Cards works.
>>>>>
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