I relate to the Covad story; Verizon (GTE at the time) told me three times that I was outside DSL range; then Covad came in and set it up in a jiffy. Well, in a jiffy after GTE dragged out the line install for months, anyway.
One thing I did with my GBL when I was using that was to have a simple install of some OS on the hard drive of the Gnat machine. That way if anything came up as a question with the ISP, I had a supported OS to test with. Then once the problem was solved, I could just unplug the power to the hard drive, slip the floppy back in, plug in the PRO network, and the Gnat was back in operation. Never did come up (oz.net, my local provider, is happy to deal with knowledgeable customers it seems), but it might help in dealing with some of the bigger providers. Ted On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 07:36, rich hurd wrote: > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
