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On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:36:55AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:52:13PM +0000, Stroller wrote: |
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>>> On 3 Feb 2009, at 17:43, Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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>>>> ... |
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>>>> What happens if I decide to switch to the "router" configuration? If I |
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>>>> have a single IP for all the machines in the LAN, when someone from the |
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>>>> outside will try to connect to homeserver.foo or to webserver.bar, will |
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>>>> they be routed to the correct machine? |
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>>> No, they will all reach the router's IP address. It will have an option |
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>>> for "port forwarding" so that you can forward port 80 to the webserver |
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>>> and ports 25 & 110 to the mail server. If you have two webservers behind |
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>>> the router then you need to use one to proxy forward to the other. |
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>>> "NAT" is another Google keyword. |
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>>> Stroller. |
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>> Is it correct to say that the configuration I alredy have (pppoe and |
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>> different IPs) is the best choice? |
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> Since your ISP offers you the option to have two different IP, yes that the |
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> best choice. Over here I would have to pay quite some money to get an |
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> extra IP. So you're lucky I guess. |
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> Also, if your ISP allows PPPoA too instead of only PPPoE, use that instead. |
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> It's a bit more optimal due to less overhead. But it's not critical or |
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> something. Just a little and safe optimization. |
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Looks like my ISP allows both PPPoE and PPPoA. |
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After some superficial googling it looks like PPPoE is preferred over |
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ethernet modems and PPPoA over USB ones... Is it true? |
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By the way what I need to do is to enable CONFIG_ATM and |
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CONFIG_PPPOATM in the kernel and reemerge ppp with the "atm" USE flag. |
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Then I need to change " plugins_ppp1=( "pppoe") " into " plugins_ppp1=( |
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"pppoa vc-encaps") " in my /etc/conf.d/net. |
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Is that all I need to have PPPoA working? |
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