We have a situation where our leased line to a new site will not be available in time for its opening. In the meantime the site management company has offered us the use of their network/internet connection. We wish to use a cheap hardware firewall to connect our internal network to theirs and out (via VPN) onto the net and to our main site. My question is, on a firewall such as a Netgear FVS114
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), can the port labelled as WAN and described as 'for connection to an ADSL or cable modem' be connected instead to their network? Is the the 'WAN' connection actually a standard Ethernet connection or do modems use a different protocol on their 'inside' face?Tim