From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 30 12:45: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.ruraltel.net (mail.ruraltel.net [24.225.0.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F20537B405 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 12:44:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from darryl (p248n30.ruraltel.net [24.225.30.248]) by mail1.ruraltel.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id fAUF4Ku29621 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:04:24 -0600 Reply-To: From: "Darryl Hoar" To: Subject: DSL questions Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:08:11 -0600 Message-ID: <000e01c179b0$d49082d0$0701a8c0@darryl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal 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 Greetings, My ISP just installed DSL at our fascility. The box they installed is a SpeedStream 5660. This appears to be a Adsl modem/router, with built in PPPoE client. The ISP recommends we buy a SonicWall XPRS2 firewall to put in front of the SpeedStream, and they will convert the SpeedStream to a Bridge. My question is, since the SonicWall costs about $1300, can I use a freebsd box running PPPoE, nat, firewall, etc to do the exact same thing? Are there any drawbacks? Have DSL live now, but not using it until I figure out the security. thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message