From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 23:52:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C16E216A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:52:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gw.dantimax.dk (gw.dantimax.dk [62.242.11.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0ECD43D4C for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mcs@post5.tele.dk) Received: from post5.tele.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.dantimax.dk (Weasel v 1.20) for ; 24 Feb 2005 00:55:32 Message-ID: <421D17F4.3030102@post5.tele.dk> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:55:32 +0100 From: "Mikkel C. Simonsen" Organization: Dantimax User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4; da-DK; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: da,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050223170254.BD23416A50B@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050223170254.BD23416A50B@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: DSL modem recommendation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 23:52:39 -0000 freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org skrev: > Another argument is that if you have no need to run a server, > USB means you have to waste CPU on translation. Of course the > counter to that is that with a modem/router, you can't get a > public IP address. Of course you can get a public IP address. The standard ADSL equipment here (Denmark) is a Siemens modem. You connect the modem to your computer over Ethernet, and get a public IP using DHCP... Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen