ADSL firewall solutions? (was Re: [nzlug] IPCop & better traffic shaping)

[Howard]

on 13/07/2008 10:04 a.m. Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Sun 13 Jul 2008 00:58:40 NZST +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> 
>> pfsense (freebsd based) is meant to be very good, but whether it
>> supports the pulsar modem is unknown to me.
> 
> I don't know either, but it's easy to find out. It's appr 50MB download
> and can be run off CD without installation to hard disk. E

I know for a fact pfsense doesn't - there isn't a working driver for BSD.

Clarkconnect looks a lot more like a 'home server' thing than just a 
firewall, and I'm not sure I like what they have done with the free/pay 
licensing thing, but I'm still open to suggestions for something that 
will work...

An aside question - what other options are there for getting adsl 
(actual IP address) onto a linux box at present? Cards? Bridging 
routers?  Any adsl routers that will take community developed firmware 
like dd-wrt/tomato etc?

thanks
Howard