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Date:      Tue, 07 Dec 2004 21:40:50 +0100
From:      Benjamin Walkenhorst <krylon@gmx.net>
To:        Dude Dude <pheeleep@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd network
Message-ID:  <41B61552.9000901@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <BAY17-F16BDC5218CBE0D6AC4B72FCBB50@phx.gbl>
References:  <BAY17-F16BDC5218CBE0D6AC4B72FCBB50@phx.gbl>

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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



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