From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 28 01:23:17 2003 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 AB6E816A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:23:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (law11-oe69.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.16.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9A7443FD7 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:23:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from weiwuzhang@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:23:14 -0800 Received: from 218.193.5.120 by law11-oe69.law11.hotmail.com with DAV; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:23:14 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [218.193.5.120] X-Originating-Email: [weiwuzhang@hotmail.com] Message-ID: <3FC71419.50609@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 17:23:37 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031105 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Nov 2003 09:23:14.0875 (UTC) FILETIME=[403730B0:01C3B591] Subject: ADSL question 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: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:23:17 -0000 Hello. I never touched ADSL before, now I booked an ADSL phone line. I have a small LAN, the server (FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE) is there as 192.168.0.1, providing services like NFS and it is a DHCP server. It also need to act as NAT for 802.11 notebooks in the room. I heard people say there are basically two types of ADSL modems. The either net modem act as a gateway for the LAN, and is more expansive; The PCI ADSL modem is cheaper, fitting one computer only, you need to configure NAT and so like on that computer for the LAN. I don't want to use the ethernet one, because I already have a standalone server, and I'm quite faimiliar with FreeBSD NAT & DHCP & router configuration, but configuring ethernet ADSL modem is new to me. I still need the server to connect wireless computers in the LAN, which ethernet ADSL modem cannot do it directly. So I think I need a PCI ADSL modem. The problem is, I wish to buy a FreeBSD compatible PCI ADSL modem, but looking into the hardware note (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-i386.html) I didn't find any ADSL PCI card. Do FreeBSD support any PCI ADSL Card?