Chris 'Xenon' Hanson wrote:
> Chris Zakelj wrote:
>> Why not just a plain old DSL/10BaseT bridge and pppoe(8)? I agree that
>> it'd be great to have hardware plugged comfortably inside the system and
>> one less piece hanging off the power strip, but canacar@ and crew have
>> done an incredible job on it, to the point where even my old i486/33
>> with a pair of ep(4) cards can handle residential (384/1.5 tested) DSL.
> My ISP uses PPPoA rather than PPPoE.
>
> PPPoA is in some ways, preferable, since you don't have the MTU
> issue of PPPoE.
It is helpful to include such details ;) At the office where I worked
roughly three years ago, we had a setup where the external modem handled
all the PPPoA aspects, but transparently handed off the public IP
address and forwarded all ports to the oBSD firewall I had set up.
Unfortunately, I forget the name of the company that made it, but it did
work quite well, and didn't require any kind of extra configuration on
the firewall itself. How it did that, though, I haven't a clue.
