Subject: Re: SuSE and dsl
From: Craig Callender (craigc@corith.com)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 14:49:43 AKST
The Nortel modems use the cDSL technologies which only support 2 MAC
addresses behind the modem. Plug in any more and the modem stops
functioning. They are kind of crappy in that esteem.
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002,
Jim Courtney wrote:
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:44:13 -0900
From: Jim Courtney <courtney@ieee.org>
To: Arthur Corliss <arthur@corlissfamily.org>, aklug@aklug.org
Subject: Re: SuSE and dsl
You just plug all your machines, and your modem, into a hub/switch. The modem
has a MAC address just like the NIC cards on the LAN do. Try it out - you can
make a firewall/NAT box with a single NIC and a hub - at least it works with
MTA's Paradyne modems. I don't know why the Nortel modems wouldn't work too.
On Thursday 14 February 2002 01:29 pm, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> > 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.
>
> How is that wired? You have to send the output of the NIC straight to the
> modem, right? If so, how do you shunt traffic to a hub/switch, then?
In the beginning there was data. The data was without form and
null, and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of
IBM was moving over the face of the market. And DEC said, "Let there
be registers"; and there were registers. And DEC saw that they
carried; and DEC separated the data from the instructions. DEC called
the data Stack, and the instructions they called Code. And there was
evening and there was morning, one interrupt.
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