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Re: [PLUG] Linksys and DSL
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"I have about 14 domains that I serve and provide web services for."
I think a DSL line might be a little thin for something like that... just
MHO...
"A question was asked wether Verizon business DSL is PPOE. I cannot answer
> that. I suspect it is. Does anyone have it?"
I am not sure, but I imagine that the only difference between the
residential and business DSL lines is the Terms of Service and whether or
not they issue a statically assigned DCHP entry in their server. Also
interesting is that even with the business DSL line, you are still not
allowed to run servers or use "excessive bandwidth," according to the ToS. A
subjective terms that lots of mainstream ISPs like to use to take your money
for a service they do not want you to use.
Honestly, for what it appears you are trying to do, I think you'd be better
off with a co-lo or something equivalent - maybe even something like
rackspace or whoever they are this week.
Another option that I just thought of is to get comcast and then use a linux
box to set up a GRE tunnel to someone who has a static routed subnet and
have them give you one of their IPs. I'm doing this for a friend of mine now
and it works very well.
E
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Crompton" <doug@crompton.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Linksys and DSL
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Paul wrote:
>
> > I think the router in Linux Journal was the WRT54G, which is a wireless
> > router.
> >
>
> Yes it was. This is the non-wireless version of that and it too is linux
> based. The GPL code is downloadable at the Linksys website.
>
> > Having a static IP will help. Is the DNS server for internal use only?
> > I never tried to set up e-mail servers with port forwarding, so I can't
> > comment on that.
>
> I am my primary DNS - currently Bind8. Two secondaries exist. I question
> wether this would work properly with port forwarding. I don't think it
> could be made to work at all with Dynamic IP.
>
> I have about 14 domains that I serve and provide web services for.
>
> > I would use the router at the front, unless you want a Linux/OSS
> > learning experience.
>
> Well that was my thought. The other is versatility. I like simplifying
> things. It is the Fengshui thing to do! You could build a rather generic
> Linux box with a 192.168.x.x address and it would work. Having a spare
> would be easy and the front-end modem and DSL router could be replaced
> cheaply and easily. Also you don't depend on a single computer from which
> the rest of your network gets to the net. This could be an even bigger
> issue with PPOE where you would be dead if you depended on the one
> computer and it failed. You would be scrambling to get another configured
> and connected.
>
> A question was asked wether Verizon business DSL is PPOE. I cannot answer
> that. I suspect it is. Does anyone have it?
>
> Doug
>
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