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> it's almost certainly because you got fooled into buying hardware that requires closed-source drivers. Bingo, that seems to be about all that's available. I'

by flukus 8y ago

> it's almost certainly because you got fooled into buying hardware that requires closed-source drivers. Bingo, that seems to be about all that's available. I'm looking at off the shelf hardware I can purchase locally, hardware I know works with local ISP's, I have no idea if we use the same standards as America for this stuff, what connections and adapters I'll need, etc. Buying locally eliminates these variables. If there's a happy path by all means share. I only looked into this stuff in the first place so I could get set up a home server and my current modem/router is woefully out of date and has a very suspect definition of DMZ.

wtallis 8y ago
> hardware I know works with local ISP's Your ISP is irrelevant, unless you're shopping for an integrated modem+router. Rule number 1 is don't do that, and keep your modem separate and just a modem. Then your router only needs the universal standard Ethernet port as its WAN interface, and at worst you might have to configure PPPoE instead of just using DHCP to get your public IP.
- flukus 8y ago
  > Rule number 1 is don't do that, and keep your modem separate and just a modem I think I'm going to have to go down this path, I was just hoping to avoid it. It means having another device to configure, another set of blinking lights, another weird shaped plug to try and squeeze into the power board and learning whatever PPPoE is just to transform Ethernet packets into the ADSL equivalent. It also possibly means a more complicated setup controlling outbound connections so that a compromised server cannot reach the modem.
  - vel0city 8y ago
    Most modems do not usually have much to configure if anything at all. Most management pages for these devices will have line quality metrics and other network debugging tools and have zero user configurable settings. PPPoE settings are usually all configured by the router/gateway.

by flukus 8y ago

wtallis 8y ago

> hardware I know works with local ISP's Your ISP is irrelevant, unless you're shopping for an integrated modem+router. Rule number 1 is don't do that, and keep your modem separate and just a modem. Then your router only needs the universal standard Ethernet port as its WAN interface, and at worst you might have to configure PPPoE instead of just using DHCP to get your public IP.

flukus 8y ago
> Rule number 1 is don't do that, and keep your modem separate and just a modem I think I'm going to have to go down this path, I was just hoping to avoid it. It means having another device to configure, another set of blinking lights, another weird shaped plug to try and squeeze into the power board and learning whatever PPPoE is just to transform Ethernet packets into the ADSL equivalent. It also possibly means a more complicated setup controlling outbound connections so that a compromised server cannot reach the modem.
- vel0city 8y ago
  Most modems do not usually have much to configure if anything at all. Most management pages for these devices will have line quality metrics and other network debugging tools and have zero user configurable settings. PPPoE settings are usually all configured by the router/gateway.