From owner-freebsd-net Mon Jun 28 5:16:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (wya-lfd72.hotmail.com [207.82.252.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC8A115413 for ; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:15:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gtsirt@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 2446 invoked by uid 0); 28 Jun 1999 12:15:12 -0000 Message-ID: <19990628121512.2445.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 132.146.249.143 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:15:11 PDT X-Originating-IP: [132.146.249.143] From: To: wes@softweyr.com Cc: tetsuya1@prodigy.net, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:15:11 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I was looking at prices for DSL modems (Routers and Bridges) and I could not find anything cheaper than 400-500USD! Does anyone know a cheaper source? (on-line preferably...) Thanks George spork wrote: > >On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Tetsuya Watanabe wrote: > > > FreeBSD doesn't know about the ADSL, it just sees a router. Your "ADSL > > modem" is really an ethernet to ATM router, and should answer the DHCP > > request for you. Doesn't it? > >Probably not. I understand most of the cable modems work that way, but >even the one I've seen still then acts as a DHCP *server* to the PC. Precisely what I expected. >As >far as cheap-o ADSL services go, they usually give you a bridge (Westell, >Alcatel) which is a completely dumb piece of hardware that just bridges >every ethernet frame to the DSLAM and beyond. If that's the case, then >you need to listen to whatever some dhcp server behind the ISP's router is >handing out (the router is likely set up as a DHCP helper). Ugh. I'm only familiar with the USWest service, which uses the NetSpeed (now Cisco) router. Bridging your entire LAN onto the DSL line seems like a pessimal solution. >That's at least how they do it here in Bell Atlantic land... Another >thing to note is that somewhere along the line they may be filtering by >MAC address and they may have forgot to get that info from you. Here you >cannot do a thing until they've stuck your MAC address in the switch that >aggregates all the customers together... Duh. And I'll just bet their customer service people are polite and well-trained, right? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message