Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers

[Ansar Mohammed]

To be honest, I use the entire range. Since with the proper NAT rules, you
are not using broadcast or subnet address.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of James
> Knott
> Sent: May 24, 2007 2:42 PM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Linux-friendly (non-Bell) GTA DSL providers
> 
> 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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