From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 7 20:39:50 2004 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 1832816A4D2 for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:39:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1519043D4C for ; Tue, 7 Dec 2004 20:39:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from krylon@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 28817 invoked by uid 65534); 7 Dec 2004 20:39:47 -0000 Received: from i53874BD9.versanet.de (EHLO [192.168.0.13]) (83.135.75.217) by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 07 Dec 2004 21:39:47 +0100 X-Authenticated: #685629 Message-ID: <41B61552.9000901@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:40:50 +0100 From: Benjamin Walkenhorst User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (X11/20041025) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dude Dude References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd network 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: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 20:39:50 -0000 Hello, Dude Dude wrote: > Right now, i'm changing cable for adsl, and i would like to know if i > can mantain my network arch, cause ppp causes me a lot of confusion. I don't know about FreeBSD's support for dsl, but I've got that setup at home with a NetBSD machine connected to a dsl-modem on one NIC and to the local network on the other - works fine. > PS: the gateway is running PF/NATD and dhcpd, and i would like to run it > just like that in the new gateway... thanks Given that FreeBSD supports DSL - which I am pretty sure it does, as Net- and OpenBSD do support it - I think you can go on with your setup. It seems to be pretty popular, in fact. =) I don't know much about ppp, either, but again, I am pretty sure there's good documentation available. For NetBSD, there is a howto which brought me online in less than twenty minutes. But once that's working, a dsl line should not behave differently from a cable modem with regards to NAT and dhcp (you want the machine to be a dhcp server for the local network, I assume). Kind regards, Benjamin