an old PC with 2 NICs and OpenBSD with ipf and ipnat. (I'm still running OpenBSD 2.7.)
If you have an old machine to spare, i'd definitely recommend going this route rather than getting a "broadband" router. My reason for saying this is that I have little or no experience with such.
From your other postings on this list, Paul, you seem to know pretty much what you're doing, so I'd recommend you use iptables and ipfilter.
If you go with Verizon, you may have to also use PPPOE (PPP over ethernet). I'm not certain of this, because my wife uses Verizon DSL on her Mac downstairs and it has this keep-alive agent that it must run. Since it requires a password and all that jazz, i'm assuming that it's doing PPPOE.
In my experience, GNU/Linux or one of the BSDs installed on an old machine (Pentium class or better) makes an excellent router. I've used a P100 and now a 300 MHz K6 machine and both could push packets from one NIC to the other faster than my DSL connection could handle them.
As for the providers saying that they could give you DSL and then saying that they couldn't, I have no idea. I do know that one provider told me that they could give me DSL, but that it would be slow, and my current provider said that we could all the way to 1.5 Mbps and beyond. I'd say maybe somebody's database got a little messed up.
Cheers, Jason
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