Is there a way to clone a ppp address onto a local network?

[Jerome Petazzoni]

> My upstream connection is an ADSL connection over PPPoE. Currently I have
> a single address and I NAT all my other hosts onto the upstream connection. 
> [...] I could obtain more ip addresses from my provider, however then 
> each host would have to run pppd and support pppoe. 

if you can deal with your ISP to it routes the extra IP addresses thru your
"main" PPPoE connection, everything will fall back easily to simple routing
(it is technically possible ; in France, Nerim  has a commercial offer for
/29 subnets thru ADSL).

else, you can try to run multiple PPPoE sessions on your gateway, and then 
use IP-to-IP NAT in PREROUTING chain.

Jerome Petazzoni <skaya at enix dot org>
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