[Gllug] Recommend an ADSL modem?

[Tethys]

Doug Winter writes:

>I don't know if this is what you mean by passthrough

By passthrough, I just mean that it works as a router -- it routes IP
traffic, and nothing more. It's doesn't attempt any NAT/PAT, and doesn't
try to do any filtering, it simply passes traffic from interface A to
interface B.

>but I'm running my router in bridging mode, so it bridges pppoa to
>pppoe, then running pppoe and a pppd on the OpenBSD box, so it's
>actually that that makes the ppp connection. Then I can firewall on
>ppp0 as my internet interface.

Yep, that's one way of doing it. Why not just firewall the ethernet
interface, though (in my case, xl0), and let the router do the PPP?
Arguably, you can monitor the connection better by doing it yourself,
but mine's been sufficiently reliable that I haven't had to.

Tet
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