Re: [Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3

2008-11-05 Thread Tim Bishop
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:00:47AM +, Andrew Gordon wrote: > Some routers (and maybe your device??) do give a way round this: they will > map PPPoA on the ADSL line to PPPoE on the ethernet side, allowing the > connection from the ISP to be terminated at the host, assigning the public > IP a

Re: [Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3

2008-11-04 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008-11-04, Andrew Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm aware that this problem doesn't apply in places where direct PPPoE > connections are widely available: here in the UK, 99% of ISP connections > are PPPoA only. nope, see BT SIN 386. working absolutely fine here and at some customers (

Re: [Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3

2008-11-04 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:00:47 + (GMT), Andrew Gordon wrote: >My main objection to external routers is that they swallow up the one IP >address that you get with an ADSL line, so you then have to play games >with complex NAT/port-forwarding setup on the router to run any services >on a host be

Re: [Soekris] Soekris-tech Digest, Vol 57, Issue 3

2008-11-04 Thread Andrew Gordon
> From: andyk365 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Soekris] PCI ADSL modem. > > We supply the ADSL2+ card you're talking about in the UK now. It presents as > a realtek ethernet NIC and as far as we are aware works well with xBSD. > > You can check it out at http://www.oem-router-solutions.co.uk