Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:19:30 -0500 From: bob olbrich <rjob@gulftel.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: phone line networking Message-ID: <37377792.C0BE989F@gulftel.com> References: <3734DE28.7BECE892@gulftel.com> <KC5Z2.1224$2w4.46460@news.uswest.net>
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"John J. Rushford Jr." wrote: > bob olbrich <rjob@gulftel.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > Does anyone have any comments regarding the newer phone line networking > > products that have appeared lately? I know they are slower (1 Mbps) and > > more expensive for a small home network. > > Such as DSL? > > Within the last 5 months, I have put two small offices on DSL lines, > 256k up 640k down. FreeBSD 2.2.8 systems act as the natd/ipfw gateway > for the windows 95/98 users on a private network. In each location, > there are aproximately 12 users and they are quite happy with the > speed of their internet connections. These DSL lines are proving > to be very economical for these two businesses. In addition the > FreeBSD machines act as their mail, web, and dns server. The > users use outlook to retrieve their e-mail from the FreeBSD pop server. > > I've been quite happy with the DSL lines and suggest them to other > businesses that I work with. > > As for being supported, I merely plug a cross over ethernet cable > between the Cisco DSL modems 10BaseT interface and the FreeBSD 2.2.8 > machines ethernet card and assign the static IP number given by the > phone company to the FreeBSD machine. The static IP numbers increase > the cost to me of only about $15.00/month. > > My only complaint is that I cannot currently get pptp connections > thru the FreeBSD gateways to NT servers from the internet. It > is my understanding though, that I will be able to do that with > FreeBSD 3.2. > > I haven't looked at cable because it is my understanding that > @home has too many restrictions, no http or smtp servers, and > will not give static IP numbers to me. > > -- > John J. Rushford > jjr@sapphire.alisa.org > jjr@cs.du.edu > http://www.cs.du.edu/~jjr bob I'm sorry! I meant the networking products that use phone lines for the network medium (e.g. Boca HAN, Diamond HomeFree, Intel Anypoint, etc.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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