From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 10 18:59:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gulftel.com (mail.gulftel.com [208.222.57.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5645154A9 for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 18:59:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjob@gulftel.com) Received: from gulftel.com ([208.226.46.90]) by mail.gulftel.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-58681U15000L999S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 19:23:49 -0500 Message-ID: <37377792.C0BE989F@gulftel.com> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 19:19:30 -0500 From: bob olbrich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: phone line networking References: <3734DE28.7BECE892@gulftel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "John J. Rushford Jr." wrote: > bob olbrich 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