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.
I had to find out, because I wanted to make sure all my ducks were in a row before the stupid modem gets here. So I started poking around on the web site. The only clue that I found was on the page where I could download their "(mumble)Poet" software -- at the bottom was a link to go 'back to PPPoE main page.' So I guess Earthlink runs pppoe -- and I guess I'd better upgrade because I seriously don't think my current Gnatbox version supports it. Grumble. I do so hate to upgrade "production" machines, even if they are only running my home network. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
