On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 02:27, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > That would be great if I could just do DHCP ethernet. > > But I have visited people who had DSL connections in their homes, that required > them to run some windows program to authenticate.
The end-user hardware that providers give to home users and to business customers tends to be different, since home user access tends to be more volitale. > My concern is that I won't have any control over the authentication required by > the ISP. I expect that many different ISPs will be used. If the product is a Ask the ISP what authentication they use??? > success in the market, it will be installed in retail locations throughout the > US and possibly in other countries as well. > > I don't want the installer to have to go through a lot of pain to set up the > authentication. I also don't want my client to have to deal with the situation > that the ISP refuses to provide a connection because the box is running a > turnkey system and not windows. Finally, I can't have the client's installer > hacking on text config files - I have to minimize manual configuration and > provide a pleasant GUI interface to any configuration that can't be avoided. > > Does Linux handle DSL authentication? Can linux configure a DSL modem to > handle authentication, without any use of Windows? Is there a way I can test > this authentication with my office LAN? What does the xDSL provider provide and expect? - PPPoE, or a USB modem, or a modem that outputs "regular" ethernet? Since it's a business account, I *presume* that it will be straight ethernet, but I've been wrong before... - A single static IP address, multiple static IP addresses, or multiple dynamic IP addresses? The answers to these 2 questions depends on how you configure the network interface, the firewall, IP masquerading (if necessary), and internal DHCP (again, if necessary). Sincerely, Ron -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
