I hear now there's another entry in the mix of dsl, "P O A. I heard linux doesn't have good support for it, somehow it uses the raw traffic of dsl with ppp, but I really don't know much about it. I think, once my isp starts offering it, they say they install a router, so hopefully it'd be good enough to handle whatever they use, but one never can tell. If it really is a router, and it gets the static IP I should be maintaing even when I get it, how can I run stuff in linux like mail, web, whatever that outsiders still can access? If eth0 gets the private address the router uses for gatewaying, http requests would be taken by the router, not the linux box behind it.