Can't help you with your problem, but the news group 'can.internet.highspeed' does have some Linux users. You might try there, if you haven't done so already.
Regards, Dean Calgary ----------------------------- > Sorry if this is offtopic for this list, but I'm at my wits' end. > > I'm from Toronto and I use Sympatico's High Speed Edition ADSL service... > Recently they've switched to PPPoE and today they disabled their DHCP servers. > Argh... what a long day... what's worse, they officially do NOT support Linux, > and the only thing they could come up with was to provide the NTS PPPoE client > (which was *user-level*, very CPU-intensive, and buggy and poorly written.) > > I searched dejaNews and managed to find a kernel patch for a PPPoE driver, and > I managed to get the connection working fine for my Linux box. But there are a > few other machines that connect to my box (I use IP masquerade) running > windows, and they just can't seem to retrieve webpages properly. > There have been mentions of the problems stemming from MTU's -- I've tried > setting all the MTU's I can find to a small value (1200-1300), on my Linux > box, on the other windows machines, but the windows machines STILL can't > retrieve webpages correctly. FTP works fine, ping works, DNS services work, > and even some simple webpages appear to work. But places like Yahoo, the > Debian site, just doesn't load at all (or only loads the first few lines of > HTML and stops). > > Anybody can help???? Thanks!!!!! > > > U > > > ===== > ()() > "Don't modify spaghetti code unless you can eat the consequences." > `--' > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
