dsl and the confusedness the howto brings about various protocols

[Janina Sajka]

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.
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Information Systems Research & Development
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

janina at afb.net