While other posters summed it up best by pointing out that DHCP is more
of a network configuration protocol, and has no means to authenticate a
user, some DSL providers *do* authenticate by using PPP over Ethernet
(PPPoE). So when your system becomes active, it has simple network
access over DSL, but in order to get to the outside world, you'd need
to establish a sort of PPP link *over* your existing DSL link. You would
then authenticate via normal PPP mechanisms and have a high-speed PPP
connection to the Internet.
Unfortunately, I don't have experience setting this type of thing up
under Linux, but if your DSL provider does indeed use something like this,
this is what you need to look in to.
David
On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:07:17AM -0700, John F Feist wrote:
: Greetings folks, just got my dsl connection yesterday and I was
: hoping to port the Linux server, which runs ax25-utils, over to the
: dynamic account. I run RH 6.1 and have the dhcpd installed for the
: second NIC interface, which is configured as the outside interface. I
: have taken a stab at configuring ipchains to masquerade all internal
: machines too that interface. where I am confused, now is where do I put
: in the authentication data for username/password ? I make use of diald
: on another system and have pap-secrets in the /etc/ppp dir. Is there
: such a format for dhcpd (maybe the /etc/dhcpc dir.?). Looking for a
: site to help me configure the setup. Someone mentioned one but I lost
: the email. I could use some help as there really is no Gateway to point
: to during the negotiation other than the multicast portion 224.0.0.0.
:
: I have some more work to do on the rc.ipchains script to add the
: slattach port for the Jnos/Tnos application and the 44 domain IP's.
:
: Thank you in advance. Hope to see more amateurs on DSL as time go on.
: 73, John
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