Re: ADSL modems that work in linux ??
This assumes that Daniel is using PPPoE or PPPoA. I have a bridged
solution at home with a /29 so have not had a chance to play with any the
PPPoE offerings.
S
>From a personal preference I'd prefer the tweakability of an internal
device Jeremy Lunn wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 03:32:08PM -0800, Simon Tennant wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Nope, it may save on overhead if it doesn't use PPPoE (but it still
> might have to use PPPoA). But you don't allocate an IP address to each
> device, as I said, PPPoE writes to the ethernet interface rawly. Only
> the PPP device has an IP address and it's more of a pseudo device.
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