From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.154]) (1508 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 00:15:32 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from [216.163.21.20] by gate.ufw2.com for speakup@braille.uwo.ca id XAA20178; Sat Sep 9 23:12:16 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA00739 for ; Sat, 09 Sep 2000 23:12:26 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000909232014.007ad1e0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2000 23:20:14 -0500 Subject: dsl and the confusedness the howto brings about various protocols Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: 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.