[ale] Bellsouth DSL?

[Bruce Griffis]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 11:55 pm, Fulton Green wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:07:38PM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > I've never installed a bellsouth DSL hookup before.  I keep hearing
> > about PPPOE for them.  From his ethernet's side will he just have to
> > have drivers for his eth and the dsl router will do the upstream work of
> > the pppoe or are we going to have to configure his server to talk pppoe,
> > etc?
>
> Depends on the DSL router.  Some of the more recent models support PPPoE.
> _______________________________________________
I have BellSouth DSL and am using a Linksys BFSX41 router (or something like 
that). I put my Westell aDSL modem into bridge mode, and my router is the 
PPOE client towards BellSouth.  Do a quick google on Broadband Forums, that's 
where I got good information on setting up my Linksys (and my Netgear before 
I switched to Linksys).

As far as my Mandrake PC (with Apache) is concerned, it's pure Ethernet. If 
you are using DSL and want outside access to your servers, you can use 
DynaDNS to provide a dynamic hostname and port-forwarding to get you to your 
server.

What kind of router are you using? Will it provide NAT and firewall 
functionality? 
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