bell atlantic uses ppp over ethernet (pppoe) which requires you to send a
user-name and a passwd. it is like an ordinary dialup modem, in a sense....
i think i might need to use pppoe but i could be wrong. i tried the dhcp
stuff but that did not help. i think i almost have it i just need to know
how to assign the ip to the card and how to load the ethernet card on
boot-up.
unfortunately the modem they provide us with is just a single machine
setup, in order to use it with multiple you have to use some sort of
ip-masking software....
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Patrick O Neil
wrote:
=>I don't know about pppoe (whatever that is)...I simply use
=>dhcpclient (replacing the sucky pump). That's it. Dynamic
=>ip is not a problem (leave ip, DNS, gateway, etc, entries in
=>inetcfg blank - dhcp handles all that).
=>
=>I have RH 6.1 with USWest DSL. They use dhcp too so there
=>should be no real difference. They also do not explicitly
=>support linux but that hasn't been a problem for me at all.
=>As for masquerading...my DSL "modem" does that. Are you
=>sure it is necessary to do it on your box as well? I am
=>assuming that the Bell Atlantic DSL router box ("modem")
=>does this as well. USWest supplied me with a Cisco 675
=>router and it does masquerading by default.
=>
=>-----Original Message-----
=>From: Adrian Walters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
=>Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 8:37 AM
=>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=>Cc: recipient.list.not.shown
=>Subject: DSL QUESTION
=>
=>
=>when i first got dsl set up Bell Atlantic was giving out static ip's.
=>recently two of my friends decided to get dsl, but BA stuck them with
=>dynamic ip's over pppoe. BA provides support for windows and MAC OS, but
=>not for linux... i am pretty sure that the same can been done by using one
=>of the pppoe implementations that are available on freshmeat.net. problem
=>is how is this set up. has anyone been able to set this up to work
=>properly??? i have gone through the setup and read all of the faq's and
=>how-to's i could find, but still have not been able to successfully set
=>anything up that works. how do i set up eth0 to take the ip that is giving
=>to it from the BA dhcp server, this machine will be running ip-masqudering
=>so any and all help will be greatly appreciated.
=>
=>
=>thanks
=>
=>
=>
--
To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe"
as the Subject.
