[ILUG] Eircom + Firewall

[Eireann Design (Gianni Ponzi)]

Thanks for the answers everyone. I think I may have worded my question
incorrectly.

Basically my concern is over the setup software provided by Eircom. On their
site they stipulate only Win  / Mac machines will work with their router.

Am I incorrect in saying that I should still have no prblem setting up the
router on a Linux firewall (e.g IPCop) as long as I have the connection
settings to Ericom ?

The only question is whether they are also initialising somethinig in the
router with the setup CD. I mean why only Win  /Mac??

Thanks again and apologies for the confusing post

GP





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Thompson" <michaelnt at gmail.com>
To: "Gianni Ponzi" <g.ponzi at epa.ie>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Eircom + Firewall


> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:59:00 +0100, Gianni Ponzi <g.ponzi at epa.ie> wrote:
> > Has anyone setup a firewall with Eircom broadband ?
>
> Shorewall is a good program for setting up firewalls on Linux. If you
> have an ADSL modem with a ethernet port then you can simply add
> another network card to a Linux box and set it up as a firewall.
>
> Your choice of ADSL provider isn't going to affect this much beyond
> the ADSL modem they may supply you with.
>
> For a discussion on various ADSL modems/routers see
>
> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=108420
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