Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:45:05 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com> To: "Forrest W. Christian" <forrestc@iMach.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> Subject: Re: FW: DSL natd rules.... Message-ID: <XFMail.000130194505.freebsd@cybcon.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001301957200.18812-100000@workhorse.iMach.com>
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OK, what does this mean for me? On 31-Jan-00 Forrest W. Christian wrote: >> In my experiences and knowledge, the phone company's network does a lot of >> the >> NAT and everything. Somewhere along the line your final output IP is bridged >> with the ISP's IP to give to you. The NAT and routing is typically internal >> in >> the phone company. > > Just to put my $0.02 in here. > >>From experience with USWest DSL from both the customer and ISP end, I can > guarantee that the phone company does very little to the ATM cells which > go between the 675 and our equipment (ATM interface on a Cisco router). > > If we set the connection up PPP the client has to set it up PPP, if we set > it up bridging, so does the client. We can (and do) at times push out a > whole subnet bridged to the client end. > > I have yet to see anything which indicates that the telco does anything to > the packets except take them in on the DSLAM and push them out our ATM > port. > > - Forrest W. Christian (forrestc@imach.com) KD7EHZ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > iMach, Ltd., P.O. Box 5749, Helena, MT 59604 http://www.imach.com > Solutions for your high-tech problems. (406)-442-6648 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- E-Mail: William Woods <freebsd@cybcon.com> Date: 30-Jan-00 Time: 19:44:51 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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