Ah,
So in PPPoe, if the gateway/router (e-smith here) is in a million pieces
because someone like myself is annoyed with Telstra.
Any other machine connected to the LAN would not get net access?
I assume here that with PPPoe, the Ethernet from the modem goes straight to
the gateway machine and not to a switch which, happens to have the gateway
machine on it?
If this is the case, then to throw a new problem in, what if I want 3
servers on the net, in parallel, e-smith, mail, www1, www2. I assume they
would have to be masqueraded servers anyhow? As Dynamic DNS only hands out
one IP address??
******* ETH0 ***********
---------------------*MODEM*-------------------------------* E-Smith *
ADSL ******* One way loop back Ethernet ***********
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|Ethernet ETH1
|
***********
*
*
*
Switch *
*
*
***********
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|Off to workstations and masq'e
|PC's
I just got off the line with a client.... and he is less than impressed with
the whole dynamic IP and Telstra issue.
He saw this product called e-smith, thought he could just whack it in and be
off.
And certainly it is the case for us with ISDN.
I guess given that the above is right. If I find out 100% from my Telstra
contact that all there ADSL services are offered with PPPoE and you must
have a machine to handle the connection details - Win98, Linux, E-smith - as
long as the DynDNS details have been fixed. It will still be a simple
matter of plug in, power up and off and away.
It really irks me when I can't give a clear answer and water the already
planted seed of how wonderful and easy E-smith is. Which it is, don't get
me wrong - but the whole dynamic IP thing and various flavours of ADSL are
really putting a strain on the perception these people have of ease of use.
In getting their office online and emailed and all that....
I am off to hassle some Telstra techo's. Any words of advice and wisdom
from any others in a similar boat??
Cheers,
Richard.
