[TriLUG] Is BellSouth DSL service better than Time Warner Cable connection

[Greg Brown]

This brings up yet another question about Sprint and DSL.  They don't 
seem
to offer a layer 2 device like the cable modem companies do, rather a 
router
which, I imagine, has the publicly routable IP address on the outside 
then it
probably barfs back private IPs on the "lan" side via DHCP.  Is this 
how the
system works?  Is the Sprint DSL router pre-configured for NAT?  Which 
IP
ranges does it use by default?  Does the Sprint router support more than
one IP address on the LAN side?  Can the router be configured to pass 
ports
though the router to a device behind the router (specifically I'm 
thinking of
ssh here)?

Questions questions.

Greg

On Tuesday, Jun 29, 2004, at 09:41 US/Eastern, Dan wrote:

> --On Monday, June 28, 2004 09:26:17 PM -0400 Tayfun Teksoy 
> <tteksoy at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Is DSL connection Linux friendly, it seem like they do not support 
>> Linux
>> on their web page.
>
> If your machine(s) are behind a firewall/router then their OS really 
> doesn't matter.  Either the modem or the router will do the PPPoE 
> authentication, not your client machine.  If you are asking your 
> client machine to do the authentication I'd have to ask why?
>
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> Dan
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