A Sábado, 27 de Agosto de 2011 21:07:29 Todd Pytel você escreveu:
> On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 20:49 +0200, JF Straeten wrote:
> > May I ask which VDSL2 modem you are using with your soekris box (brand
> > and model) ?
> 
> Is it an absolute requirement that the Soekris box do the DSL itself? I
> used to have my network set up that way, but it was a hassle for various
> reasons. In particular, if there was a problem with my ISP, they would
> use that a convenient excuse to say it was my problem even when it
> clearly wasn't.

>From our experience most ISP-side problems are related do ADSL 
synchronization, and unrelated to however you obtain an IP (PPPoE or DHCP).

> So instead, I reconfigured their DSL modem to do some
> static routing. In my case, their network expected the modem to have
> public IP 1.2.3.4 on its internal interface. Instead, I put 10.0.0.1 on
> its internal interface, 10.0.0.2 on my (home-built) router's external
> interface, and 1.2.3.4 on my router's internal interface. Then, in the
> ISP's modem, I set a static route to my assigned IP block via 10.0.0.2.
> 
> While the above is an inelegant solution, it avoids a lot of hassle with
> the ISP while also saving me the trouble of finding and configuring a
> PCI DSL modem.

Configuring their modem as a bridge will bring the public IP to the soekris box 
which makes port forwarding way easier, pushing most work (nat, routing) to a 
solid soekris box running a stable OS and less work to the cheap and perhaps 
not so stable modem you're using.

Plus you can reuse a Soekris CF imagem across different ways of obtaining an IP 
from the ISP (static, DHCP or PPPoE).

You can do more interesting stuff as well:

http://blog.angulosolido.pt/2008/03/intelligent-linux-gateway-
multihoming_04.html

(I can't remmember if I shared this on this mailing list before, I apologize 
if it is a dup).

Cheers
Gustavo

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> --Todd
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