[NTLUG:Discuss] Verizon FIOS and PPPoE

[Jay Urish]

Aww man....
They are pullin uniduct in my Flower Mound neighborhood right now. I 
figured they would try some BS like PPPoE.. I really want to put my 
mailserver at my house.



Jack Snodgrass wrote:
> 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
> 
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