From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 20:25:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E70816A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:25:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from audi.websitewelcome.com (audi.websitewelcome.com [67.19.210.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6496E43D1F for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 20:25:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jfarmer@goldsword.com) Received: from adsl-065-013-105-239.sip.tys.bellsouth.net ([65.13.105.239]:1896 helo=[192.168.1.33]) by audi.websitewelcome.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1Dg77H-0004qt-1U for freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:25:35 -0500 Message-ID: <42A75434.1090805@goldsword.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:25:24 -0400 From: "J. T. Farmer" Organization: GoldSword Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <004a01c56c4e$b8dfa2c0$0200a8c0@bennypc> In-Reply-To: <004a01c56c4e$b8dfa2c0$0200a8c0@bennypc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - audi.websitewelcome.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - goldsword.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: ADSL for use on server X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 20:25:42 -0000 Benny Goemans wrote: >Hi, > >I'm switching from cable to ADSL in a month and I was wondering what (kind of) modem I should best go for. Would it best be one that connects to a NIC or to USB. I'm now using a (console) NAT & proxy server, with which I should be certain it works. For this, I would like to have some possibility to automatically dial at boot time (or if the modem takes care of that, even better). > >Should someone be using an ADSL modem on this kind of connection, would it be possible to tell some more about it? > In the US, most providers use a modem with a dual interface. The one that I'm using is a Westell provided (aka I purchased) with my BellSouth ADSL service. It has both USB and Ethernet interfaces and is configured to do PPPoE for the connection. Since I already had a wired network in place, I passed on configuring a single machine to talk to it and bought a cheap ethernet to ethernet router, the Linksys BEFSR41. I could have setup one of the old 200MHz boxes stacked in the corner to do the same, but I was under some time constraints and for ~$35USD it was up and running. (When the client is your wife, there are always additional pressures,.... and rewards....) John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Owner & CTO GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com 865-691-6498 Knoxville TN Consulting, Design, & Development of Networks & Software