
Craig Sanders via luv-talk wrote:
On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 10:12:56AM -0500, Jason White wrote:
Apparently there are not many *DSL modems that support openwrt.
There used to be an ADSL 2+ PCI card. Perhaps there are newer models available now that support VDSL2, or whatever the NBN uses. In that case, a small Linux system would be quite viable.
Some still exist. Unfortunately, you won't find one for less than about $600, about 3-5 times the price of a current VDSL/ADSL capable router, many of which will WILL run openwrt.
I **really** wanted one of these way back when, but my billion 7401 was much cheaper. I can't remember what I paid for it but it was under $200 - less than a third of the price of an ADSL PCI card.
I ran one in production for a while. It was a pain, because if the DSP chip got too confused, you'd have to power cycle the card. Which you could only do by power-cycling the entire host. So "just turn the bridging modem on and off again" became much more annoying "schedule a reboot of the main router". Compared to that, having a stupid consumer box dangling off the edge of my rack is a minor annoyance.