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
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