Subj : ADSL in LAN
To   : Leonard Erickson
From : Tom Laermans
Date : Sat Jun 10 2000 07:42 am

Hi Leonard ...

At 09-Jun-00 03:35:09, Leonard Erickson wrote to Udo Zaydowicz about ADSL in 
LAN...

 LE> Here's where it gets tricky. You *could* hook it up to a hub. But
 LE> doing so will make your LAN acessible from the Internet.
Depending on what cably/dsl company you're with, and what type of modem
they give, it probably won't be possible, as you will receive only 1 IP for
your whole LAN... your network uses internal addressing (hopefully) so
won't be reachable...

 LE> The best way to deal with this is to set up a system as a
 LE> firewall, and use two NICs in it. One for the ADSL\, and one for
 LE> your LAN. With the firewall software filtering the packets that go
 LE> between them.
Exactly :-) Use Linux with IP chains and pmfirewall, easy as anything :)

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