--- Satya satyap@satya.virtualave.net wrote:
On Aug 10, 2001 at 10:05, S. Krishnan wrote: It's XP or ME right now, but the guy is changing to W2K soon. The ISP is Directvdsl (I'm sure there're some StudlyCaps in there, but I don't know where).
Satya, I did some checking, and we need to know how this guy is allocating IPs. DSL is a serial link, and the issue is of deserializing it at your end. Since you're using USB, I wonder what would happen if you used a USB hub. It just might take care of the necessary deserialization, so that in this case the connection mode would depend on the DSL carrier protocol. Actually, I know so little about DSL that I wouldn't be able to comment any further - I have absoultely no hands on experience or reading in this area. (If the link layer protocol is PPP, then you will have to route to his network, just like an ISP leased line, or so I presume. If on the other hand it is something other than a point-to-point protocol, maybe you can get two IPs off it directly.) WHy don't you talk to his network techs and see what they suggest?
If I get something else, I will mail you offlist.
Sorry for not replying before, but the office leased line was down (bless MTNL and their pointy little heads), so that I had to use my home dialup to reply.
Rgds,
Krishnan
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