On Tuesday February 18 2003 11:34 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> All,
>
> Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux
> (little do they know *grin*) any way they have DSL with SBC and it
> uses ppoe .... I've never set it up and I don't know of a good
> document source. Note that the person is computer literate but
> primarily a windows developer. So this person expects a lot of
> things to work/act like windows. (Took me a long time to make this
> person believe that Linux doesn't need different driver CDs all the
> time)
>
> Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of
> instruction page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any
> suggestions?
>
> James
Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), there's a wizard that just
asks some basic questions. I prefer to use Roaring Penguin, the rpm
(rp-pppoe) is on the CD's. Either should setup the connection with no
problems. For rp-ppoe, run 'adsl-setup', which, like MCC, also asks
some simple questions. Actually 9.1, uses rp-ppoe during
installation and the connection is ready to go when you first boot
up. 'adsl-start' and 'adsl-stop', unless ofcourse, you tell the 9.1
installer to start the connection at boot.
Coupl'a cautions, at least true for me with SBC thru SWBell.
"User", must be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', simply 'user' won't work. DNS is
automatic, and connection is dynamic IP, so don't enter any DNS
numbers or IP address if that's the case with the connection, ie,
dynamic, DNS from 'server'. I choose 'none' for firewall during
adsl-setup, then installed and setup guarddog.
There's more info than anybody'd want in the 'DSL-howto', but
it's fairly easy reading, and has a trouble shooting section.
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