Thanks for the info, Doug. I did some investigation yesterday and did find that PPPOE was in use by Bellsouth.
--- Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have bellsouth DSL, and it works fine for me. I > also have the Alcatel > Speed Touch Home. Unlocking the NAT features was a > bitch, but once I > got that done, it was smooth sailing. Appaerently, > bellsouth deems it > necessary to lock out the pppoe settings tab before > they send you the > modem. And even if you didn't want to deal with > that, you could use > roaring penguin pppoe. Sorry if I missed something, > but you can use > dhcp on your home network, but you won't get that > from Bellsouth, they > use pppoe, one of the dumbest inventions I've ever > came across. ===== Failure is NOT an option! That is why I use Linux... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
