Subject: Re: YDL is up and running
From: Eric M. Reischer (emr@engr.de.psu.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2000 - 08:42:43 MST
Actually, I'm about 99% sure I've seen PPPoE drivers for Linux. Can't say
I've seen them out there compiled for YellowDog, but I know I've seen them
for Debian, so I'm sure you can get ahold of the source and compile a copy
for yourself.
Eric
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000 chris@music.mcgill.ca wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Nathan A. McQuillen wrote:
> >(Stop me, anybody, if I'm saying anything inaccurate or too general here
> >-- I'm no expert, but I don't think "drivers" for a DSL modem sounds too
> >kosher. It was my understanding that they tend to be stand-alone devices,
> >and generally include routing and support for multiple IP addresses.)
>
> Actually, there is a good chance that what his phone company is using is
> not TCP over ethernet, but PPPoE. This would likely require special
> drivers, perhaps proprietary, depending on how it was implemented. I do
> know that my phone company pulled this stunt on me, and it was a major
> PITA to get it to work under MacOS let alone Linux. I dropped them and
> switched to cable modem, and I haven't regretted it at all.
>
> I do have a router though, but didn't use Linux because I'm using a Nubus
> (PPC6100) machine and I didn't want to mess with MkLinux (and IPNetRouter
> from Sustworks works beautifully and is *very* easy to use). If I had a
> 7200 doing the job instead, I'm not sure whether I would use IPNetRouter
> or Linux... like I said, IPNetRouter is really easy and very stable.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2a24 : Mon Oct 30 2000 - 08:50:29 MST