On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:29:14PM -0500, Andrew Hurt wrote: > On 12/16/02 23:40, Andrew Hurt wrote: > >On 12/16/02 15:32, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > > >Once I connect (using the PPPoE interface within the router), I get > >access to the outside! My connection was turned-on today and I'm > >getting about 84kB/s (much better than my old 53.2k dialup). > > I finally got pppoeconf to set-up everything correctly--without the router. > Can now connect to ISP at boot-up. I'm probably making my situation more > complicated than it really is (1 computer <-router-> ISP). > > Have quite a bit of education ahead of me, it seems ;-)
:) With Linux you don't even need a router or most of the other things. The only thing that is useful on a "normal" network with "linux-aware admins" are switches and hubs. Linux can do all the routing (hence the routing tables in Linux), NAT, bandwidth managment (qdisc stuff here) and much much more. Frankly, a router in all but some extraordinary situations is useless - well, my opinion at least :) - Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
