Re: OT: firewall program
- From: dplatt@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Platt)
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:16:37 -0700
In article <13ugpabd1c8ht5c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Robert Baer <robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I understand that will help a lot - but seems to be impossible to use
in a dial-up situation.
Zyxel used to make a product which sounds ideal for your needs.
It functions a lot like a standard "broadband router" product in
today's market (multiport Ethernet hub, NAT-capable router), but
instead of an Ethernet WAN port it has a built-in modem. On demand
(when you initiate traffic from the Ethernet side) it goes off-hook,
dials your ISP, logs in, and starts up a PPP session.
I don't think they make it any longer (I don't see it on their web
page) but what you're looking for *is* possible.
As others have suggested, a junker PC running a small Linux
distribution, acting as a router and driving the modem via its serial
port (using diald or a similar dialup-on-demand-and-run-PPP service)
would do the trick.
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