dsl and the confusedness the howto brings about various protocols

[Brent Harding]

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.
>> 
>> 
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