Bob,
The ISP provides the connection. What you attach is your business. If you
have a coke machine with an ethernet adapter that can talk IP to your
inventory dispatching system a generic DSL connection from US West will
support it. US West, the support organization, however probably won't,
when you call for support. When you tell the help desk person your coke
machine can't connect to your AS400 you probably will find the US West
support person pretty clueless and probably useless in helping to resolve
the problem.
So putting that in a Linux perspective, the US West DSL connection will
work with Linux, or any other operating system you choose to use provided
it uses TCP/IP. But most, if not all consumer level ISP support desks,
don't even know that there are any OSs other than Windows '95/'98. Some
may have heard of NT, but even then the answer is NT?, our system doesn't
work with NT. Nonsense of course, but expect it.
Tom
Bob Hartung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@mail.redhat.com on 05/09/2000 09:56:08 PM
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Okay, I have learned that US West is now offering DSL service in my area
and my line qualifies for always on, fixed IP address service at 256 K
for US 29.95/month or 2 hour at a crack limit for US $19.95/month. Does
anyone have any issues with US West regarding their acceptance of
Linux? If so let me know before I jump in.
Thanks
Bob
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