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Re: Hardware needed for home network



John Hasler a écrit :
> 
> If the modem is configured as a bridge it won't speak IP to the server:
> just PPP (over ethernet).

Even working as a plain ethernet bridge, an ADSL modem usually has an IP
stack for management purpose. Also a bridge does not speak PPP, it just
lets PPPoE (an other ethernet) frames through like a switch does.

> To get to the Internet via the modem the
> other systems would need to speak PPP.

A bridge connects the LAN to "the outside". That outside may not be the
public internet, but it is something out of your control.


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