Cool, they call it a router, so it must be one, whatever I might get. Is there similar drivers for linux with the windows dun functionality? At 02:04 PM 9/12/00 -0400, you wrote: >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 > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
