The present invention is to provide an ADSL modem for providing an IPoA, a
PPPoA, or a PPPoE based dial-up networking service over Ethernet, which
comprises a DHCP server coupled to at least one computer, each computer
is adapted to use a DHCP provided by an OS thereof to obtain an
authorized IP address and associated settings from an ISP through the
DHCP server, and the DHCP server is adapted to assign the authorized IP
address and the associated settings to each computer, enabling at least
one computer to access the Internet without installing any driver or
application program.