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It looks like Netgear have released beta firmware for the DGND3700 that seems to address some of the issues reported by users in the Netgear support forum.  What isn’t clear as yet is whether this firmware fixes the Annex M issues experienced in 10.0.0.17.

More information here: forum1.netgear.com/showthread.php?t=73252&page=1

Configuration for a Cisco 877 router to transparently bridge a BeThere Internet connection so that the public IP address is passed through to an internal device.  Great for use with an ASA firewall. Essential config is highlighted in bold.

Update: Following an upgrade to Advanced IP Services on the same IOS revision, the configuration below broke and would no longer forward packets.  Disabling CEF at a global level fixes the problem but I’ve to do more investigation as to why.

version 12.4
no service pad
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
service password-encryption
!
hostname Router
!
boot-start-marker
boot-end-marker
!
logging buffered 4096
enable secret 5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
!
aaa new-model
!
!
!
!
aaa session-id common
clock timezone GMT 0
!
!
dot11 syslog
ip cef
!
!
no ip domain lookup
!
!
!
!
!
archive
log config
hidekeys
!
!
!
bridge crb
!
!
interface ATM0
no ip address
no atm ilmi-keepalive
 dsl operating-mode adsl2+
!
!
interface ATM0.101 point-to-point
 atm route-bridged ip
 pvc 0/101
bridge-group 1
!
interface FastEthernet0
!
interface FastEthernet1
!
interface FastEthernet2
!
interface FastEthernet3
!
interface Vlan1
no ip address
!
interface Vlan999
 no ip address
 bridge-group 1
!
ip forward-protocol nd
!
no ip http server
no ip http secure-server
!
!
!
!
control-plane
!
bridge 1 protocol ieee
!
line con 0
no modem enable
line aux 0
line vty 0 4
transport input ssh
!
scheduler max-task-time 5000
end

Best baby book by far – “what mother’s do” by Naomi S – I’d recommend reading this while pregnant, on maternity leave and then soon after baby is born. I could have written most of the chapters but would have found it strange to read while pregnant but will give a brilliant insight into what it’s really like at home with a baby… lovely book!

Other good pregnancy ones…
The Best Friends Guide to Pregnancy by Vicki I
Anything by Sheila Kitzinger such as Pregnancy and Childbirth or Giving Birth: How it really feels
The Rough Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
What To Expect When You’re Expecting

When it comes to baby books / manuals, my advice would be handle with care as reading these made me mainly miserable and stressed and in lots of cases they aren’t right! According to The Baby Whisperer, I shouldn’t have held my baby all the time in the early days as she would never be put down and now she plays independently quite happily! But I wish I could have spent the time holding her and enjoying it rather than trying to put her down and making her cry!
The ones I read were:
The Contented Baby book by Gina Ford – would never have worked for us but wanted to see what all the fuss was about
The Baby Whisperer
The Fussy Baby book – Sears

Other random books worth a look:
Good Mother, Bad Mother by Gina Ford
Letting Go As Children Grow by Deborah Jackson
The one by Jools Oliver – Birth to 9 months, I think

Black and white mobile, books,

Mobile to go over changing table – keeps baby amused during bum changes. Has to be moved when their arms are long enough to pull the bits off! Great for nappy off time!

Rainforest play gym (with giraffe as one of the arch supports)

Tiny love super play mat

Bumbo – for when they can’t quite sit up yet. And tray.

Bouncy chair – I bought cheaply one from mothercare but then spent £85 on a babybjorn babysitter chair bcos they can go in that up to 29 lbs and Jessie has outgrown the mothercare one. Essential for taking baby into bathroom so you can shower while playing peekaboo and don’t have to wait for when they are sleeping only to hear a cry when you’ve just started shampooing hair…

Lots of nappies and wipes (Huggies wipes are awful)