From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 30 19:49:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23AF314D28 for ; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:49:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@cybcon.com) Received: from laptop.cybcon.com (william@usr1-8.cybcon.com [205.147.75.9]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10562; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:49:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 19:45:05 -0800 (PST) From: William Woods To: "Forrest W. Christian" Subject: Re: FW: DSL natd rules.... Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug White , Coleman Kane Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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