Re: Am I about to shoot myself in the foot?

From: chrisclu (ng.10.chrisclu@spamgourmet.com)
Date: 02/16/03


From: "chrisclu" <ng.10.chrisclu@spamgourmet.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 06:36:44 GMT


"MyndPhlyp" <notreally@home.now> wrote in message
news:b2mnk6$rip$1@slb9.atl.mindspring.net...
> I would like to have the ability to Telnet into an ADSL modem from the
LAN.
> The problem is the PPPoE router - regardless of the routing table setup or
> the IP network arrangement, the PPPoE router wants to either keep the
Telnet
> packets on the LAN side or sends them out via the PPPoE tunnel to the
> Internet on the WAN side.
>
> So here's my idea:
>
> Internet => modem => hub => router => workstation
> | |
> | |
> ==============
>
> For those of you who cannot make out the diagram, the workstation would
have
> two NICs - one with an IP network for the PPPoE router's LAN and the other
> for the modem's LAN. One path bypasses the router and connects to the hub
> giving it a free and clear route to the hub's LAN port. The other path
goes
> through the router.
>
> The question I have is this:
>
> Is the PPPoE path the ONLY path for Internet traffic (meaning the Internet
> cannot circumvent the PPPoE tunnel and gain access to the workstation via
> the hub connection over plain ol' Ethernet)?
>
Why not install the NetBEUI protocol for your LAN traffic? Router will
handle only the TCP/IP traffic and will ignore the NetBEUI traffic.

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