Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1750 mails)

["Andrew Joakimsen" <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Brian K. White <brian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
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