Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers

[Allen Taylor]

On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:41:41PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> 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.

Exactly! And one of those 6 has to be assigned to the router leaving 5
assignable to other servers on the sub-net. 

The (sub) discussion started with the assertion that 7 IP addresses were
assigned by Teksavvy - but one is in fact the PPPoE address.

Allen
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