USB modem for firewall

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:46 am, James McNeill wrote:
> gday everyone,
>
> I've got this guy who wants a linux firewall put in. I showed him round
> IPcop, and he was very impressed. only troubble is, he has an ADSL
> connection with a winmodem in sheep^w USB clothing. I have come across some
> Linux drivers for softmodems, but they are few and far between. is there
> any way around getting a new modem?
>
> IPcop has support for some alcatel USB modems, but this one's a Dynalink
> ALE070 (GlobeSpan chipset i think). Google has shaken her head doubtfully
> at me thus far.

You could try the Smoothwall GPL 2.0 (beta4) version.  It is 2.4 based, and 
probably has better USB modem support than the current IP Cop.

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Rasjid Wilcox
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