freebsd network

[Benjamin Walkenhorst]

Hello,

Dude Dude wrote:
> Right now, i'm changing cable for adsl, and i would like to know if i 
> can mantain my network arch, cause ppp causes me a lot of confusion.

I don't know about FreeBSD's support for dsl, but I've got that setup at 
home with a NetBSD machine connected to a dsl-modem on one NIC and to 
the local network on the other - works fine.

> PS: the gateway is running PF/NATD and dhcpd, and i would like to run it 
> just like that in the new gateway... thanks

Given that FreeBSD supports DSL - which I am pretty sure it does, as 
Net- and OpenBSD do support it - I think you can go on with your setup. 
It seems to be pretty popular, in fact. =)
I don't know much about ppp, either, but again, I am pretty sure there's 
good documentation available. For NetBSD, there is a howto which brought 
me online in less than twenty minutes.
But once that's working, a dsl line should not behave differently from a 
cable modem with regards to NAT and dhcp (you want the machine to be a 
dhcp server for the local network, I assume).

Kind regards,
Benjamin