[plug] Firewall question

[Craig Foster]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au 
> [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf Of Matthew Lambie
> Sent: Friday, 17 June 2005 12:45 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Firewall question
> 
> On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:49 +0800, Arie Hol wrote:
> 
> > > While I'm not the worlds biggest expert on ADSL by a long shot, 
> > > isn't ADSL implemented at the telephone exchange level, 
> so multiple 
> > > providers would be using the same piece of equipment?
> > > 
> > 
> > Not necessarily - some ISP's have their own equipment 
> installed at the exchanges.
> 
> I'd just assume multiple phone lines... I highly doubt that 
> you can run dual ADSL links over a single copper line, though 
> I too an not an ADSL expert so I may be wrong.
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew Lambie
> Technical Director

Wrong. Sort of. -ish. It's not always going to work, but I have seen (a
LONG time ago) a Speedtouch Home in bridged mode, connected to a hub,
with two PPPoE routers attached. The PPPoE encapsulation keeps the two
data streams separate. Now, I don't think Telstra will allow two sets of
codes on the one phone line anymore. This config was setup when Telstra
first installed the Belmont Exchange ADSL kit...

That being said, no, I don't know of a off-the-shelf firewall distro
that allows two Red interfaces... Yet.

I'd suggest it's time to do your firewall manually or look at a Linksys
RV042 as it handles bandwidth load sharing as well. They rock. :)

Craig Foster
RedHat Certified Engineer
craig at fostware.net
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