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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."
Virgin in the UK used to refuse support until you connected a Mac or Windows box directly. Routers were 'not supported'.
I know a few the tech support guys at my Provider, they're used to me sending logs from my BSD based firewall. A fair percentage of Modem/Routers are linux based anyway. The only real difference here is the termination is no longer a modem provided by the customer. You'll still need something that talks PPPoE to authenticate to the network, be it a hardware based router or a plethora of software based distro
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of cats. MEOW!!
Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.
I think soldering an RJ45 to your cat will probably kill it.
I case I misunderstood you, ironing your cat will also kill it.
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 ...
If anyone wants to build their own router and is concerned about power usage, size, heat or noise (i.e. doesn't want to use an old desktop) I would recommend them to look into mini-itx systems. The power supplies for an entire typical mini-itx are rated lower than the cpu alone requires in a desktop. They can be made not only fanless, but completely moving-parts-free. And best of all, they're not much larger than the router you'd be replacing!
It's not cheap though, unfortunately.
linux users will also still be able to use the national electricity network to power their devices.
Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.
I think soldering an RJ45 to your cat will probably kill it.
Yeah, RJ45 connectors are plastic and will melt easily. Much better just to crimp it to the cat. Just make sure you get out of the way very quickly afterwards.
I think soldering anything to a cat puts the solderer at greater risk than the solderee.
Dont laugh, I've already soldered an RJ45 connection to the iron. The cat is next.
Are you using CAT-5e or CAT-6?
... and then they built the supercollider.
We had this pot belly stove in the corner of the living room and during the summer the cat loved to use it to survey the room at eye level but when we used it for the first time in the autumn there was this horrible screech and the cat rocketed across the living room, into the kitchen and stopped, buffing, under the kitchen table.
The treatment for burns is immediate immersion in cold water and fortunately the bath was half full so I picked up the cat and started to "immerse" the patient in the water. I tell you, the resulting scratches lasted months.
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Not. Yet.
Though I do check /s/ every night after the wife has gone to bed purely to make sure it is still there.
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