On Thu, 25 May 2000, David Nesting wrote about, Re: DSL and DHCPD:
> 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.
Its all explained in the Cable-Modem mini howto which can be found in
/usr/doc/Linux-mini-howto (slackware)
/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini (redhat)
DHCP in the same directory explained the basic DHCP stuff as well.
But we are really off topic here.
> 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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