From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 13 0:32:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26CF037B684 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:32:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.9.3) with SMTP id f1CHGMi60950; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:16:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001d01c09517$453547c0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Cc: References: <20768358.981997424567.JavaMail.imail@seamore.excite.com> Subject: Re: ADSL and PPPoE question Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:14:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message