Re: Kernel-PPP and PF Questions

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:25:14 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-10-27, bob prohaska <bp@fib.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
[snippety]
> Sounds like the fundamental question comes down to "Given a decent router,
> is there any reason to use it in bridge mode?". Seems like the only downside
> is needing a dual-horizon DNS (the inside hosts know each other by different
> IP's than outside hosts know them).

There may be reasons. If you say ``decent router'' is restricted to a
cisco or comparable up-market stuff, those usually are powerful and
featureful enough to do most anything you want. If it includes the
el-cheapo adsl home-``router'' stuff with a webinterface and nothing
more, I'd take a FreeBSD box to do the firewalling and run PPPoE and
other stuff you might want it to do (IDS, etc.). This because of
configurability and ease (and availability!) of software updates. 

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  j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .

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