While we're on the topic of DSL, I have a question. I've had DSL for about 2 years or so - long enough that I've always had a bridged connection. Well, I recently moved and will be waiting about another month before USQWest an get my DSL up. My ISP's informed me that they're going to give me a routed DSL connection because they're trying to get rid of their bridged ones (most likely so they can save on IPs - for security reasons they were giving each user his/her own subnet, which makes that 4 IPs per user - expensive). My question is this: Since my IP address will now be assigned to my DSL router _instead_ of my firewall/NAT box, how can I still have my firewall act as the firewall for my network? Obviously, I'm going to put it on the line between my router and the rest of my network, and I can concieve setting it up as an ethernet bridge or something, but it seems like it will be difficult to do the port forwarding I'm doing now. I suppose I could setup my router to forward to 10.0.0.1:25 (for mail) and then have 10.0.0.1:25 forwarded to 10.0.0.2:25 (my mail server). But it seems like a silly extra step. Has anyone run into a similar situation? TIA, Gabe -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Pillage Pillage Pillage! Loot Loot Loot!!" - Stimpson J. Cat in "Out West" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org