Re: Switching from GCI to ACS

I found this thread on the Ubuntu forums, and it seems pretty straight
forward and "easy".
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=214734&highlight=pppoe+adsl
Bob

On 10/2/07, W.D.McKinney <deem@wdm.com> wrote:
>
> _____
> From: Stanley Long [mailto:slong@acsalaska.net]
> To:
> Cc: aklug@aklug.org
> Sent: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:23:09 -0800
> Subject: Re: Switching from GCI to ACS
>
> Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Bob Cortez wrote:
> >> I am absolutely fed up with ... [clipped]
> >
> > ACS dsl uses PPPOE, so if you connect using a Linux box the Roaring
> > Penguin is your friend, as Arthur pointed out. Using a router select
> > PPPOE as your connection method, supply your user name and password
> for
> > ACS, the rest of the info isn't needed or is supplied during the
> > connection process. I am on 24/7 so I enable the persistent
> > (re)connection, automatic dns, no idle timeout, connect on restart.
> These
> > are Icop choices, other routers may differ in terminology but the
> concept
> > is the same.
> >
>
>
> Nortel Newtorks <---> IPCop box < --- > LinksKey 10/100 switch
> Debian, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and a shall-not-be-spoken system AOK
>
> May reinstall IPCop to correct our MTU.
> 'been on so long we don't know where the IPCop password is :-(
>
> Unless things have changed dramatically, it is like this:
>
> NWC - Redback ------->IPCop<---->LinksKey 10/100 switch,Kubuntu,Ubuntu
>
> :-)
>
> -Dee
>
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