Subject: Re: SuSE and dsl
From: Steve Pilkington (pilkin@ncc-a.net)
Date: Sun Feb 17 2002 - 16:10:10 AKST
Okay, LOL, you guys have been great. I configured the smpppd (which is
what pppoe apparently is handled by) and then was able to connect with
dsl through kinternet like a charm. I kept trying to configure a pppoed
is what the problem was. Thanks everyone for your help, offers and advice.
Steve Pilkington
Craig Callender wrote:
>That's the first time I've heard of that. I would be a little leary of
>putting the modem on a hub, though, since what's to stop any other user from
>trying to run PPPoe on their box as well? Have to wonder what kind of
>conflicts that would cause.
>
>Learnt something new. ;-)
>
>--
>
> --Arthur Corliss
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> Digital Mages -- http://www.digitalmages.com/
> "Live Free or Die, the Only Way to Live" -- NH State Motto
>
>Arthur,
> You could get around it by using this setup:
>
> Modem
> HUB
> Computer1 Switch/router
> Internal Computer Network
>
>This would let computer1 use it's own pppoe, and then all the other
>computers would be on the internal network using your router's pppoe
>connect features. That is what I have at my house. The only thing is,
>that I have to pay for two DSL accounts.
>
>
> In the beginning there was data. The data was without form and
>null, and darkness was upon the face of the console; and the Spirit of
>IBM was moving over the face of the market. And DEC said, "Let there
>be registers"; and there were registers. And DEC saw that they
>carried; and DEC separated the data from the instructions. DEC called
>the data Stack, and the instructions they called Code. And there was
>evening and there was morning, one interrupt.
> -- Rico Tudor, "The Story of Creation or, The Myth of Urk"
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