Host PPPoE service w/ DSL modem to host own DSL service

What I would like to do, is create my own PPPoE server. In a nutshell;

Cable Internet --> Router --> PC via Ethernet --> DSL modem via PC's modem (telephone wire, etc).

Basically, make it so that when I plug a phone line from my PC's dial-up modem into the "Insert DSL line here" port on my old DSL modem, that a service/signal will be running from my computer (it will host the service -- what I'm looking for) into the DSL modem, so that I can plug a computer into the DSL modem's Ethernet port and have network access.

Any ideas? Or questions if I've been too blunt?

#502613

You'll need a lot more equipment than that. DSL ain't Ethernet, kid. DSL works by modulating digital data over normal analog phone wire. To make your service work you'd basically have to pay an arm and a leg to run your own telecom carrier over the copper that already exists in your neighborhood and is owned by whoever is already doing DSL. Furthermore you'd need to buy a block of IP addresses (probably a class C or B netblock) and get a DHCP server running along with the usual lineup of phone line filtering equipment and such. So... probably ain't gonna work.

--Dan

#502641

Errm, ain't lookin' into it that hard, haha. Just trying to experiment around -- all internal. straight from the host to the old DSL modem, none of the mess with the copper in the house and government things, lol.

#502642

I would suggest pfSense if you want to play around with a PPPoE server (why, I dont know). It is a light-weight firewall/gateway based on FreeBSD and m0n0wall (which use the tried and true OpenBSD PF Firewall (packet filter)). It is very easy to setup, use and configure with the webConfigurator.

I dont know about how bad you need a PPPoE server (although, setting one up crossed my mind when I noticed how easily it could be done in pfSense) but at the least you'll end up having a very secure network.... just need an extra computer with two network cards in it.

Go read about it and download the bootable ISO (i think its only 50mb). If you test with VMware make sure to add an extra network interface, pfSense requires at least two.

http://www.pfsense.org

Good luck -

opti

#511177

Haha! Opti, you're awesome. I'm so glad someone found this thread and revived it :3.

I want to do this so that I can line my house with a 100ft telephone wire (which is LOADS cheaper than a 100ft Cat5 Ethernet cable) to the basement of my house so that my grandfather's middle-aged computer (2001 - Linux) (WiFi doesn't reach) can get online through my old DSL modem. Plus, I figured it would be a fun little project.

EDIT: By the way, I would like it if this program allows me to have the said test-computer to be on the same VLAN and Subnet as the host server that will be hosting PPPoE, so that it can be pinged from any computer on my current network setup through my two routers and ethernet switch.

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