From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from gate.ufw2.com([216.163.19.154]) (3339 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:11:54 -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 VAA12920; Wed Sep 13 21:11:47 2000 Received: from hardb ([216.163.21.59]) by mail.ufw2.com (Build 101 8.9.3/NT-8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA01394 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:12:00 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000913211956.007e9aa0@mail.ufw2.com> X-Sender: bharding@mail.ufw2.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:19:56 -0500 Subject: Re: dsl and the confusedness the howto brings about various protocols In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.6.32.20000909232014.007ad1e0@mail.ufw2.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca From: Brent Harding List-Id: 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@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@afb.net > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >