11 Jan
2019
11 Jan
'19
11:18 p.m.
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