[OT] Re: DSL Coming -- I may need help! : My ranting :)

From: James Willing <jimw_at_agora.rdrop.com>
Date: Mon Feb 28 22:05:26 2000

At 10:15 PM 2/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Jay wrote
>>Bruce wrote...
>>> connection! It'll be (minimum) 256K up/downstream guaranteed, and those
>>> rates could fluctuate a bit depending on the usual variables.

>...
>Also thoroughly check out your options in terms of multiple static IP's,
etc.,
>if this is important to you. These aren't important issues to folks who are
>using a PC-clone to surf the web over a DSL line, but if you want to hook
>older machines to your LAN to get to the outside world through DSL you do
>need to pay attention here.

...or, look into IP Masquerading. I'm running that through my Linux box,
which also hosts my web server and it all runs quite well. My other Linux
boxes, the occasional Windoze box, and just about anything else I drop in
the net seem quite content, and it all appears as a single static IP
address to the rest of the world...

-jim

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