On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Shepard,Brian wrote:
> No, I live in a high rise apartment building that has a T1 line coming into
> it and all the apartments have Ethernet wall jacks. All you need is a
> Ethernet card; no PPP or DIAL-UP stuff. My machine is dual boot; Win95 works
> like a champ, but Linux can't see the network. Both OSs have the same
> network parms; IP addr, subnetmask, gateway, & DNS. Win95 works, Linux
> doesn't. When I do home, I'll capture the output of "netstat -nr" on Win95 &
> Linux along with an "ficonfig -a" on Linux and send it out to the list.
> Thanks for all the replies; this is great!
>
> -Brian Shepard
>
Brian,
I don't have much experence with PPPoE, but it sounds like that is
what you have. PPPoE is not a dialup connection - it is a PPP connection
over Ethernet. From my limmited understanding of it, it has some security
advantages - you are only talking to the machine at your ISP - other
machines at your apartment building can not talk to each other. It is
also a lot harder to snoop on PPP packets. The big advantage from the
ISP's point of view is that they can control who has access, because you
have to connect to their machines to access the internet. You can not
spoof someone elses IP and connect up - you have to do a username and
password validation just like a dialup connection.
Maybe someone with experence setting up PPPoE on Linux could step
in here with more information, and corrections?
Mikkel
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Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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