Linux Gateway via 3G

[Sik]

Hello all, I am looking at setting up a Gateway server, preferably with bandwidth monitoring tools. I know of some great flavours but none that support dail out with 3G properly...

Are there any versions out there that have good 3G support? I have two modems a E367 and an E1820.

 

[ktmpixie]

I'm not sure I understand you there, but I currently have a linux machine running as my gateway. It uses an E1820 modem to connect to the internet and my other interface eth0 is connected to a router which is just acting as a wireless access point. It all starts up using the ppp deamon at start up and I use shorewall for my firewall and interface routing. I'd imagine any distro would let you do the same but I'm using arch if that helps, their wiki is extremely useful.

 

[Sik]

Thanks ktmpixie, I was going for a more dedicated flavour, I really like ClearOS but it seems that they have very little support for 3G - but after most of the morning searching for a ClearOS alternative, I think I will rather give Arch or Mint a try. Thanks again for your input.

 

[SBSP]

I used to do this with a E220 on ubuntu 10 and i shared my 3g connection with my PS3, didnt have to install anything, just used the network utillity on the top right hand corner of the ubuntu menu bar

 

[volstruis]

ClearOS is based on CentOS and I have always had issues with that and 3g devices.
Also if this is only for a home setup its waaaaaaaaaaay overkill. I'm running Fedora 16 on my laptop now and it picks up 5-6 different USB modems with no issues. Just pop a linux distro on it and config basic stuff like proxy and firewall.
If you absolutely have to go dedicated server route try Zentyal which is based on Ubuntu 10.10 / 11.04. Ubuntu 11.10 gave me issues with my 3G devices hence I moved to Fedora even though I'm a Ubuntu fanboy.