Subject: Re: SuSE and dsl
From: Jim Courtney (courtney@ieee.org)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 13:07:01 AKST
Actually, you can run your LAN and PPPoE on the same NIC. It sounds weird,
but it works. I tried it on the little thinknic computer that only has one
NIC. A packet comes into the NIC from the dsl modem via pppoe (layer 2), the
8 pppoe bytes get pulled off, it gets natted, and put back on the LAN from
the same NIC. Pretty cool.
On Thursday 14 February 2002 12:29 pm, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> > You can even do NAT and pppoe on the same ethernet card if you only have
>
> one.
>
> Okay, pardon me if this is a stupid question, but why would you *need* to
> do NAT if you only have *one* NIC? You certainly can't run a network *and*
> PPPoe on the same NIC the last time I checked. <G> So who would you be
> NAT'ing?
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