[ale] Bellsouth DSL?

[Robert L. Harris]

  Don't know what type yet, he's supposed to order it this week, figured
I'd do some advanced reconisance.

Thus spake Bruce Griffis (griffisb at MoreSpamPlease.bellsouth.net):

> 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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