On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Michel Servaes <mic...@mcmc.be> wrote: > On 18/12/10 10:16, Evgeny Yurchenko wrote: >>> >>> my only concern now is PPPoA... But I need public IP on pfSense for sure >>> to do port-forwarding. >> >> Not really; if you can ask the modem to port-forward to the pfsense box, >> you can then ask pfSense to port-forward to the final destination. >> >> So the public IP stays on the modem's WAN interface, you burn a small >> private network for the connection between the modem's LAN and pfSense's >> WAN (using DHCP so that pfSense gets the modem's sense of DNS >> providers), and provide ordinary services over pfSense's LAN. >> >> This means you end up with double-NAT, which isn't ideal in a busy >> environment, but is stable enough for quieter locations. >> >> > You could do that, but then you would have to disable the private address > filtering on the WAN side ofcourse !
Every time I'm in Europe I have problems with modem/routers, and since a lot of providers there use PPPoA I basically can't replace them :-( Are there any modems that allow a box like pfSense to provide the PPPoA implementation, or would that require the modem to be say a PCI card? Regards, -Jeppe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
