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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