On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 09:01:12AM +0200, Sjon Wijnolst wrote: > Andrew Suffield schreef: > > >>The ADSL-line is supplied with an ethernet-router, no PPP-links required. > >> > >> > >Since the cheap consumer ADSL routers are usually awful routers and > >buggy, limited NAT devices, I always try to arrange for the PPP tunnel > >to extend as far as the firewall behind it. Some routers call this > >'PPPoE passthrough', others make up names for it, but there's several > >on the market that can do it. If you can avoid letting the consumer > >junk touch the IP packets, life tends to go much more smoothly. > > > >Having done that, your problem becomes trivial to solve. > > > > > For ISP1 (adsl): It's not cheap consumer stuff, it's a Arescom NetDSL > 1000 supplied by the ISP.
If it doesn't have 19" mounting brackets, it's consumer stuff. An example of a non-consumer ADSL router would be something from the Cisco 1800 series. The important difference here is that the device's own operating system (eg, IOS) would solve your problem and provide a strong failover mechanism on the physical layer, rather than trying to put it together using a linux host. That's what you do when the uptime of the service is really important to you, and the reliability of the equipment on your end becomes a factor. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
