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  From: Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  To  : <paul@mawsonlakes.org>
  Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:12:10 +0930

Re: ADSL Requirements

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:44:43PM +0930, paul@mawsonlakes.org wrote:

 > How does this change with a fixed IP service?
 >   ADSL Phone line  +-------+  Cat5       +----------------------+
 >   -----------------| ADSL  |-------------| Ethernet Card in PC  |
 >   from splitter    | Modem |   	         | running Debian/Linux |
 >        	      +-------+   	         +----------------------+
 >                           ^                 ^
 >       	               	  |   IP addess?    |
 >        	       	       	  `- here or here --'     	       	       	
 
Neither.  The foreign-end IP address is on an Internode router.  The
ADSL modem functions as a plain ol' dumb bridge, and is effectively 
invisible to normal network traffic (it does "listen" on an IP address
for configuration, though).

 > I'm assuming that this service doesn't have any username or password
 > verification and is fixed to the phone line.
 > Is this correct?

Got it in one.

   - mark

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