Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:18:32AM -0800, nate wrote: > Michael D. Crawford said: > > 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. > > > if thats

Re: Making a DSL server?

2003-01-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 06:52:14PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I am making plans for developing a turnkey system that will be installed in > retail stores, that will have a DSL connection. > > Unfortunately, I live out in the Maine woods, far from available DSL > service. I connect to t

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
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 hom

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread nate
Michael D. Crawford said: > 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. if thats the case then I reccomend not using such providers. As you will proba

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > 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? apt-get install pppoe Worked like a charm when I

Re: Making a DSL server

2003-01-09 Thread Michael D. Crawford
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. My concern is that I won't have any control over the authentication required by the ISP. I expect that many di

Re: Making a DSL server?

2003-01-08 Thread nate
Bob Proulx said: > > Agreed about nothing to test. But disagree about static addresses. In a > retail location why would static addresses be needed? In fact I think a > fully DHCP configuration would be more desirable. more convient :) I suppose you could do some sort of dynamic dns thing with

Re: Making a DSL server?

2003-01-08 Thread Bob Proulx
nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-01-08 17:32:05 -0800]: > > Michael D. Crawford said: > > > I expect that if I were an ISP and needed to service hundreds of > > connections, this wouldn't be a problem. Does anyone make DSL server > > hardware that serves one connection? What do I even look for.

Re: Making a DSL server?

2003-01-08 Thread nate
Michael D. Crawford said: > I expect that if I were an ISP and needed to service hundreds of > connections, this wouldn't be a problem. Does anyone make DSL server > hardware that serves one connection? What do I even look for. not sure about your neck of the woods, but in mine, my DSL is pla