From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 29 12:54:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BD337B402 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:54:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.de by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 16VfGy-0001a7-09; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:54:32 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (520017439985-0001@[217.235.113.93]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 16VfGq-1uF1s0C; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:54:24 +0100 Received: from peedub.jennejohn.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by peedub.jennejohn.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0TKskI24075; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:54:47 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.jennejohn.org) Message-Id: <200201292054.g0TKskI24075@peedub.jennejohn.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.3 To: Chris Pearce Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, dunlug@lists.ethernal.org Subject: Re: Is ADSL modem + NAT the same as an ADSL Router? Reply-To: Gary Jennejohn In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:36:13 +1300." <5.1.0.14.2.20020130091127.00a87c20@pop3.paradise.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:54:46 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn X-Sender: 520017439985-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Pearce writes: > Hey all, > > I'm setting up a network to share an ADSL connection, > and I'm wondering about the difference between a regular > ADSL modem and an ADSL router. > I personally use a router because I'm too lazy to set up ppp and the firewall rules for myself. However, a friend is using a FreeBSD box with ppp -nat and just a modem (which I set up, go figure) and it works just fine. There's really no reason to buy a router if you have a FreeBSD box with 2 NICs. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message