[NTLUG:Discuss] Verizon FIOS and PPPoE

[Jack Snodgrass]

I am going to get 15Meg/2Meg Verizon FIOS installed on monday.... woo-hoo... 

They will give me a dinky, little D-Link router that does PPPoE. These routers
have been optimised to handle the 15meg speed on the WAN port... something 
like that...  A normal router that does PPPoE is supposed to work, but not 
as fast... 

Anyway... I'm hoping that I can use my Linux Router that I have set up with 
4 interfaces and not use the D-Link router. I like the way my router is set up 
now with the firewall and port forwarding that I know how to use. If
the optimation
that Version has done to the Dlink router really is so that it can handle more 
traffic on the WAN port, then I think that my linux pc should be fine.
Has anyone
else gotten Verizon Fios and tried to use a linux PPPoE client to connect? 

Is there a PPPoE server that I can run on linux to test out a PPPoE linux 
client... something that will let me set up a private, PPPeE link? 

Thanks - jack