Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers

[James Knott]

Allen Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:23:04AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:11:13AM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote:
>>     
>>> I am running FreeBSD 6.2 using teksavvy and its been great. I also have 7
>>> IPs from them. The 7 IPs with a 5M connection costs as much as a bell
>>> connection.
>>>
>>> Also, they don't block any ports. Both Bell and Rogers block lots of
>>> services.
>>>       
>> Does 7 IPs mean an IP for PPPoE plus a /29 block routed to you through
>> the main IP?
>>     
>
> My wife's church has a /29 from Teksavvy. Supposed to be 6 IPs but as
> you note the router (a Debian box) is assigned a PPPoE address. So far
> it has always been assigned the same IP addr for PPPoE so I can access
> it remotely by the PPPoE addr or by its assigned /29 subnet address. So
> even though (6 + PPPoE =) 7 IP addrs are assigned, only the 6 on the /29
> are really useful (unless I really really screw up the routing and can't
> get to it by its /29 addr!  :-) ).
>
>
>   
With a /29 subnet mask, you've got 8 addresses.  Of those 8, 1 is the 
network address and one the broadcast.  That leaves 6 addresses for your 
use.


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