All, The DSL device at my end is a modem and has no routing capability, so the ISP says. It's my understanding that it acts as a bridge to provide relatively simple connectivity to the ISP. The modem is a "Paradyne Hot Wire MVL (Multiple Virtual Line)" if that's any kind of clue. They use a proprietary DSL protocol that allows 768 kbits/sec up OR down or some mix in between. What kind of xDSL that really qualifies as I'm not sure. Running "tracert.exe" shows a couple of hops on telco routers to the ISP. The network I'm on does not show up in the tracert listing.
Another point of information. There is a sticker on the bottom of the modem that looks like it's calling out the modem's MAC. It's prefix is correct for Paradyne. When I ran a "getmac.exe" on the modem the MAC returned was NOT the number on the sticker. It was however, also correct for Paradyne. I'm guessing it's the DSLAM's MAC for my port since Panadyne makes the DSLAM also. In regard to MACs, I was thinking about Dan's comments about proxy ARP. Could I implement a router between the modem and GB and use something like proxy ARP "to muck with the IP space" as Dan referred to it? Jon At 08:55 PM -0400 5/27/2003, you wrote: >On Tue, 27 May 2003, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > > Of course, as I said, this may not work anyway, since the ISP's router will > > ARP for the "subnet" addresses, > >I was thinking about this on the drive home. Since this is aDSL, the >router at the other end will likely never do an arp query due to the way >it's configured. It's been a while, though... > >...david > >-- >David Raistrick > Systems Administrator - Global Technology Associates, Inc > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are the opinions of > David Raistrick, not necessarily those of GTA, Inc. Please Take Note: Mail system automatically deletes all messages arriving to this account from the "hotmail.com",lycos.com" and "yahoo.com" domains. ------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
