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BYO Linux Router To Australia's Fibre Network
An anonymous reader writes "Run a Linux router to connect your ADSL service but worried about what will happen when the Australian Government rolls out fibre broadband to your house or business? Worry no more. It turns out that customers on Australia's new National Broadband Network will be able to run their own homebrew Linux router to connect to the network and route traffic any way they please."
So, when someone brings a new network connection to your house, via a standard ethernet cable, you'll be allowed to connect a device of your choosing to the end? Socking. This makes the frontpage of slashdot now?
Um, what are you guys smoking? We can already do that now on our existing ADSL infrastructure.
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That's all I've got to say because you've already wasted enough characters on the fucking obvious.
Virgin in the UK used to refuse support until you connected a Mac or Windows box directly. Routers were 'not supported'.
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First rule of Slashdot: "Australian submissions always accepted".
Doesn't every ISP allow you to do this? Your ISP provides with a modem of the correct type (DSL or cable) and you provide your own router. If they give you a modem that is also a router, you can turn that off or ask them for a plain old modem. With many ISPs, at least in the US, you can even provide your own modem.
I've been running my own Linux router for the past 12 years across multiple ISPs, from T1 providers back in college to DSL providers to Comcast, and have never had a problem doing so. The tech support may be clueless if you call ("Did you reboot your router?" "Let me do that ...
linux users will also still be able to use the national electricity network to power their devices.
The summary says that you can 'route your data in way you want', does this mean that you can avoid the internet filter? Or have they implemented the filter properly (i.e. centrally)? Which would make this a non-story.
For the record, it wouldn't surprise me if they had implemented the internet filter at consumer-router/modem level. They're bright enough to do it that way.
Too bad it's Australia, the internet you get is crippled and filtered.
..once the filter kicks in the Internet will stop at your ISP... a bit like owning a ferrari in Antarctica
Nuf said.
That's great except there won't be an internet to connect to in Australia. When you filter the internet you can't call it the internet anymore. It's an inter-networked series of government approved servers.
Why would I be worried? I thought that it was obvious that you can use existing networking equipment otherwise the NBN would be pointless if you can't use it. That's even if NBN makes it to mainland Australia.
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Amazing. You can use an Ethernet-based device to connect to a domestic broadband network. Wonderful modern technology, isn't it?
Hint: If posting a story where the *opposite* actually sounds more shocking, you're not posting news. You're posting things people already know. News needs to be "new", true and (usually) unexpected, unusual, shocking, controversial etc.
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what does this mean in practical terms? in the few opportunities ive had to use a browns gas welder, i was able to move my hand through the flame, and without adjusting could
weld a nail to a brick, or turn road gravel into a molten glassy obsidian that cools to a glossy black that you could sell as jewelry. im fairly sure that you dont want to move your hand through an oxy torch. (correct me if anyone has more experience than me).
Whatever tech they use 'outside the house', as long as whatever bo they provide Internet service with ends in a standard Ethernet port, which assigns an IP address by DHCP or uses some other industry standard such as PPPoE, then what "brand" software runs on whatever you connect to that is irrelevant.
If it doesn't end in an ethernet port, I'd never subscribe to it anyway.
Even if for some bizarre reason your linux router wasn't supported (slow news day at slashdot maybe?), I doubt anyone would be at any real risk. Current deployment rate of the NBN should have most of Australia up to ADSL 1 levels by around 2030. Then watch as the government realises "Oh shit Australia has poor backbone connections to the US and Singapore and what we have done don't mean shit as we are all sharing the same tiny piece of pipe".
"National" Broadband Network.
Music to my ears.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Use at least a 6 lb cat, them older 5 lb kitties just don't cut it in the modern networking arena.
You can now wire your linux kernel right up to the national nanny filter!
Australia and china should go make their own 'internet'.
Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient for the govt to fund the National Broadband Network through a basic fixed levy added onto residential land rates that local councils charge (similar to the way I hear the state of Queensland is apparently funding it's state ambulance service) & just have retail charges (maybe by ISP resellers) for commercial users using a lot of bandwidth.
After all economies of scale are the way to defray costs & such a scheme would make any other alternative ISPs uncompetitive overnight.
I live in Japan and have had fiber for the last 5 years - I get a ONU from the fiber owner (NTT or KDDI) which is a small powered box where the fiber optic goes in, and it has a normal ethernet port.
All 3 ISPs I have had forced me to rent a crappy home router, and in the first 2 cases they stayed in the box and I used a linux box running pfsense for my internet needs - no issues. But it looks like my current ISP is doing something nasty - rumour is that they use 802.1x authentication before providing a connection, so atm I plug in my crappy ISP provided router, let it get a lease, then connect my linux box. This is great for 24hrs, then I need to repeat the whole process :(
Not. Cool.
End of the day all you need is a device that can do PPP(oE) and you are set. You could plug your PC right into the NTU/ONU and just do it from your desktop if you wanted :)
Not sure how this is "news"...