[NTLUG:Discuss] swbell dsl
Steve Egbert
egbert at efficient.com
Mon Jun 26 16:25:56 CDT 2000
Yes.
Mitch Blank and I are currently working to incorporate the PPPoE and PPPoA into the
Linux kernel.
PPPoE is now in the 2.4.0-test2 kernel.
PPPoA is VERY rough, and we are testing it.
Not for the faint of heart.
Steve Egbert
Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com wrote:
> I hate to bring this up yet again, but a friend jumped at SWBell DSL offer for
> his windows, and now finds he can't connect with linux. I used to think these
> were all just DHCP connections, but after looking at the windows connection, I
> see it installs a dummy ip on the ethernet card and then a "PPPoE" connection on
> top of that with its own routing information. I'm guessing it is "ppp over
> ethernet". Of course they do not support anything but windoze and mac. I
> suspect there might be additional authentication too, since the software takes
> you to a website to sign on the first time.
>
> Has anyone got this working thru linux? Was a solution brought up before? Is
> there a searchable archive of NTLUG's mailing lists?
>
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