My upstream connection is an ADSL connection over PPPoE. Currently I have a single address and I NAT all my other hosts onto the upstream connection. I would rather avoid NAT because, well, because it's just inherently evil.
I could obtain more ip addresses from my provider, however then each host would have to run pppd and support pppoe. This is always a pain to set up when connecting new computers. Ideally what I would like to do is have the main gateway obtain ppp connections for as many addresses as I need, then bridge or route those connections onto the local ethernet. The only oddity here that I don't know how to deal with is that pppd creates an interface with the address it obtains. I don't want the gateway box to actually respond to packets itself, I want it to forward those packets onto the network, and whenever it sees a packet on the network from one of those addresses to forward it onto the ppp connection. I could then configure a dhcp server to hand out those addresses to the internal hosts and allow a new computer to be hooked up and immediately be routed onto the internet without any NAT in the way. Is this something standard bridging or routing tools can handle? Or is there some other tool that is appropriate for this kind of problem? -- greg _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/mailman/listinfo/bridge
