From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 23:13:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 283BE16A41F for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1037E13C44C for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:13:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay8.apple.com (relay8.apple.com [17.128.113.38]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F270C8D82AF; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:13:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay8.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay8.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id DDE7E400F9; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:13:44 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807126-9f884bb00000081c-ee-466f28a8877f Received: from [17.214.13.96] (cswiger1.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay8.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id C761F400F7; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:13:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <466F1E9D.7070803@locolomo.org> References: <466DA9E0.8040207@locolomo.org> <200706121249.53906.nvass@teledomenet.gr> <68FAFDB9-DDCA-4A88-B1EA-26882AD3893F@mac.com> <466F1E9D.7070803@locolomo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:13:44 -0700 To: Erik Norgaard X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Nikos Vassiliadis Subject: Re: FreeBSD box/ADSL link config X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:13:45 -0000 On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: >> Just a note of caution about this specific point, against an >> admirable & detailed reply-- from what I understand from another >> mailing list is that the newer versions of the Speedtouch DSL >> modems no longer have the capability of acting in "bridging" mode >> and will always run in the 1-to-1 NAT translation mode. > > Thanks Chuck, the Speedtouch I have has two modes PPPoE and RFC > 1483, however, entering RFC 1483 mode it requested that I enter the > public IP!? I think that you need to enter that only if you actually have a static IP, rather than a dynamically assigned IP via DHCP or PPPoE negotiation. If the USB modem device is actually running correctly in bridging mode, ithen t doesn't need to have an IP assigned to it-- whatever handles PPPoE, such as your FreeBSD box running ppp or something like a Linksys/D-Link/etc broadband router, will get assigned an dynamic publically-routable IP address. Make sure you've set your MTU for that interface down to 1492 if you are using PPPoE. -- -Chuck