From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 23:10:02 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 3846116A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:10:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8762D43D48 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 23:10:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id EBCA485720; Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:39:58 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 08:39:58 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Benny Goemans Message-ID: <20050608230958.GV64194@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <004a01c56c4e$b8dfa2c0$0200a8c0@bennypc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="XWqhgrJxjqYWRdId" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004a01c56c4e$b8dfa2c0$0200a8c0@bennypc> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org 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 23:10:02 -0000 --XWqhgrJxjqYWRdId Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single line paragraphs. On Wednesday, 8 June 2005 at 19:23:01 +0200, 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. ADSL 2 is coming, with line speeds of up to 24 Mb/s. I don't think a USB NIC would do very well with that kind of speed, but maybe I'm just being biased. > 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). The ADSL connections I know don't dial. > Should someone be using an ADSL modem on this kind of connection, > would it be possible to tell some more about it? I've just been through the business of setting up an ADSL connection with a class C network routed via an IP tunnel. See my experience at http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jun2005.html#7. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html The virus contained in this message was not detected. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --XWqhgrJxjqYWRdId Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCp3rGIubykFB6QiMRAq55AJ4uMbphCHnwehGdpJWbf8d0AowwXQCgrY+v NE+mWZaeJUodIislwoswGbc= =VY4l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XWqhgrJxjqYWRdId--