At 09:50 AM 3/9/2002 -0500, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: >At 09:12 AM 3/9/02 -0500, Joe Matuscak wrote: >>On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, rich hurd wrote: >> >> > I'm going to be running this through my Gnatbox and was wondering if there >> > was something special that I had to do. AFAIK all I need is another NIC >> > and a straight through cable, and set up the external interface to be DHCP >> > rather than PPP. Would that be it? >> >>If its an ethernet modem, that should be it. Ive heard some ADSL providers >>are using USB based modems or PCI cards. I have no idea if those would >>work. > >most telco adsl offerings are not dhcp, but pppoe based. i don't know if >earthlink >is doing pppoe.
A quick surf over to the web site or a peruse of the welcome package should show me. ISTR that they did mention dhcp in their support area, but I'll check. I stayed away from the ISPs that offered USB modems for just that reason, BTW. I am lucky enough that anyone who gets their DSL through Covad is someone I can use. I'm still astonished that even though I'm a Verizon LEC customer, that Covad is the one who provisioned the switch for DSL. Oh well. Just goes to show how little I know about telco operations. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the digest version first unsubscribe, then e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
