> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 08:20:55 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm very sorry if this is a stupid question.
> > >
> > > In our company, we want to set up a small network of about 20 PCs.
> ADSL
> > > seems like a good inexpensive solution, and I understand that FreeBSD
> with
> > > Netgraph can act like a gateway for our computers.
> >
> > are they in different places?
>
> No - the same place.
>
> > Negraph/ppp can act as a gateway for pppoe connections but I am not
sure
> > how that helps you. How do you get the ADSL sessions to terminate on
> > an ethernet in your office?
> > (does your ISP provide that service?)
Where I come from (Ontario, Canada), there are two predominant forms of DSL
service. Residential DSL provides a DSL modem, which you need to talk PPPoE
to, or Commercial DSL, which provides a DSL modem and a Cisco 1600.
If you're going to get hardware equivalent to the "Residental DSL" service,
then you can use PPPoE on FreeBSD to connect. If your ISP will provide you
with a router, then you don't have to worry about the PPPoE stuff.
In both cases, I believe you'll have to run routed in order to route the
block of IPs into via your firewall node to your internal network, or use
NAT to do a 1-1 mapping of public routable IPs to private 192.168.x.x
addresses.
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Matt Emmerton
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