On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:48:55PM -0400, Chris Zakelj wrote: > > PPPoA is in some ways, preferable, since you don't have the MTU > > issue of PPPoE.
Much better. > 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. > I used to have a DLink 300T that done this, think it was some sort of "half-bridge", if there is such a thing. The routable WAN IP was passed though to the NIC, but I could still telnet/web to it on a private address from the same NIC - all done with DHCP. http://www.adslguide.org.uk/hardware/reviews/2004/q4/dlink-dsl300t.asp -- Craig Skinner | http://www.kepax.co.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
