Re: ADSL modems that work in linux ??
Unless I'm missing something, running the ADSL nic in your firewall
instead of as a seperate ethernet device saves you allocating each a
unique address.
S.
Jeremy Lunn wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 10:32:50AM -0800, Simon Tennant wrote:
> > Unfortunately you loose an IP address with this approach.
>
> What?
>
> I don't see where any IP addresses are lost using an external ADSL modem
> that uses an ethernet interface. Ethernet packets are written rawly by
> PPPoE to the NIC which is plugged into the modem with a patch cable.
> PPPoA would probably have less overhead but it'd be more expensive and
> I don't think there's any support for it in Linux at this stage.
>
> --
> Jeremy Lunn
> Melbourne, Australia
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