Making a DSL server?

["Michael D. Crawford" <crawford@goingware.com>]

I am making plans for developing a turnkey system that will be installed in 
retail stores, that will have a DSL connection.

Unfortunately, I live out in the Maine woods, far from available DSL service.  I 
connect to the Net with a 56k modem.

But I'm going to need to simulate a DSL connection in order to develop this 
system.  I think that it wouldn't do to just require a DSL-connected 
masquerading router.  At least I think it wouldn't.  I would like the user to 
just make a normal connection to a DSL modem.  (I don't think the user's would 
normally want or need other hosts to be connected to the Internet.)

So what I'm thinking of doing is setting up a small DSL network in my office. 
What I would need is a DSL _server_.  I would expect that for the server 
software I could set something up on a Linux box.  What would I need for the 
server hardware?

I expect that if I were an ISP and needed to service hundreds of connections, 
this wouldn't be a problem.  Does anyone make DSL server hardware that serves 
one connection?  What do I even look for.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Regards,

Mike
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