Siju George wrote:
Dear People in U.K,
I had a little taste of the British Telecom ( BT ) ISP a while back.
It seems that they have a device ( modem ) that has to be used to give
IP address by "dhcp" to all systems.
And even if you want to give Static IPs ( routable on the Internet )
assigned to you by BT on any of your servers you should first assign
the server an IP in the local range through dhcp and then get into the
BT device's web interface and assign the Static IP through that
interface to the appropriate server.
How do the British people use pfSense as the firewall while using BT
as their ISP?
I asked the sysadmin there and he said they just use the firewall on
the BT device (modem) and that the device cannot be done away with or
configured to allow us to define static IPs on the interface of our
Servers using the config files on the servers Operating System.
Is this true?
And what are the other ISPs other than BT in U.K especially in the Bolton Area?
Almost all ADSL ISPs in the UK are national, that is they share the BT
ADSL network so get almost 100% national reach.
You need to find an ISP which will allow you to use any routing hardware
you like, and configure it how you like, possibly giving you a subnet
for use with the device. I wasn't aware of BT having any draconian
limitations, unless you go for their BT HomeHub service, which of
course, needs to use the home hub!
Almost any 'decent' UK ADSL ISP should suffice, and of course the
company I work for provides ADSL too :)
There have been a large number of highly 'commoditised' ADSL providers
eating up the market at the moment, such as Orange, Sky and Tiscali. If
this is for a business application where you need some IPs, you should
look elsewhere than the 'cheap' providers here.
There are a few options for how you'd get ADSL connectivity to the
pfsense sanely, you could use a Draytek Vigor 100 to pass a PPPoE
connection to the pfSense, or you could use something like a Zoom X3 to
do 'half bridge' and present the same connectivity to you on the
ethernet to the pfSense as it's presented by the remote ADSL LNS.
Hope that helps!
adam.
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