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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:14:33 -0500
From:      "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To:        <kiguchi@excite.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ADSL and PPPoE question
Message-ID:  <001d01c09517$453547c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
References:  <20768358.981997424567.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com>

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> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:20:55 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >  kiguchi@excite.com wrote:
> >  >
> >  > I'm very sorry if this is a stupid question.
> >  >
> >  > In our company, we want to set up a small network of about 20 PCs.
> ADSL
> >  > seems like a good inexpensive solution, and I understand that FreeBSD
> with
> >  > Netgraph can act like a gateway for our computers.
> >
> >  are they in different places?
>
> No - the same place.
>
> >  Negraph/ppp can act as a gateway for pppoe connections but I am not
sure
> >  how that helps you. How do you get the ADSL sessions to terminate on
> >  an ethernet in your office?
> >  (does your ISP provide that service?)

Where I come from (Ontario, Canada), there are two predominant forms of DSL
service.  Residential DSL provides a DSL modem, which you need to talk PPPoE
to, or Commercial DSL, which provides a DSL modem and a Cisco 1600.

If you're going to get hardware equivalent to the "Residental DSL" service,
then you can use PPPoE on FreeBSD to connect.  If your ISP will provide you
with a router, then you don't have to worry about the PPPoE stuff.

In both cases, I believe you'll have to run routed in order to route the
block of IPs into via your firewall node to your internal network, or use
NAT to do a 1-1 mapping of public routable IPs to private 192.168.x.x
addresses.

--
Matt Emmerton



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