On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Brian K. White
Thus, if you are doing PPP, then you have only one address. And if you are doing PPPoE, then, by definition, you are doing PPP. You are doing it [o]ver [E]thernet.
So you must do NAT on your end to connect more than one machine to the net via that one address.
It is possible to have multiple addresses with PPPoE, see my last posting.
I myself happen to have fiber (Verizon FiOS) in my office and I have several static public IP's with no port blocking by the ISP at all. No NAT, no PPPoE, not even DHCP needed, not even any router needed, just a switch to provide physical jacks.
Verizon is using PPPoE in some cases. They most certainly install a router by default... the newer ones are using coax for the WAN side (from the router to the ONT) instead of Ethernet. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org