Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:25:24 -0400 From: "J. T. Farmer" <jfarmer@goldsword.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ADSL for use on server Message-ID: <42A75434.1090805@goldsword.com> In-Reply-To: <004a01c56c4e$b8dfa2c0$0200a8c0@bennypc> References: <004a01c56c4e$b8dfa2c0$0200a8c0@bennypc>
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Benny Goemans wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm switching from cable to ADSL in a month and I was wondering what (kind of) modem I should best go for. Would it best be one that connects to a NIC or to USB. I'm now using a (console) NAT & proxy server, with which I should be certain it works. For this, I would like to have some possibility to automatically dial at boot time (or if the modem takes care of that, even better).
>
>Should someone be using an ADSL modem on this kind of connection, would it be possible to tell some more about it?
>
In the US, most providers use a modem with a dual interface. The one
that I'm using is a Westell provided (aka I purchased) with my BellSouth
ADSL service. It has both USB and Ethernet interfaces and is configured
to do PPPoE for the connection. Since I already had a wired network in
place, I passed on configuring a single machine to talk to it and bought
a cheap ethernet to ethernet router, the Linksys BEFSR41. I could have
setup one of the old 200MHz boxes stacked in the corner to do the same,
but I was under some time constraints and for ~$35USD it was up and
running. (When the client is your wife, there are always additional
pressures,.... and rewards....)
John
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John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems
jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN
Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software
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