I don't know of an isp actually providing a router for dsl in the classic sense, though maybe the boxes they call "modems" have router type functionality it'd still likely know how to connect only to the isp. I have seen that some dsl providers have hacked Windows dial up networking to support dsl -- Bell Atlantic in particular provides a software device driver that appears to Windows as a DUN device and "dials" the connection to the isp. I guess they do this to minimize online traffic, and to keep ip usage under control. If, however, you insist on a static ip and you find a provider that supplies that, you can certainly run your linux box with its networking on it using an ethernet nic to connect (eth0 or whatever, I suppose) to the isp's "modem" -- which sends over the standard voice line out the other end. I will get to practice my theory shortly as I am moving to another Washington DC suburb soon. On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Brent Harding wrote: > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Janina Sajka, Director Information Systems Research & Development American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) janina at afb.net
