On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 08:53, Michael Sternberg wrote:
> 
> A few questions about PPPoE:
> 
> 1. Is it used by any ISP in Israel ?

AFAIK no.

> 2. How much it's popular abroad ?

I don't have any numbers but I'd wager that at least as much as PPTP.

> 3. Do I need a special client to handle it or I can use an
> old pair pppd/pptp ?

You need a pppoe client. Like this one
http://www.brightdsl.net/download/linppp.html for example.

> 4. What other methods (that I can not handle with pptp) are used by ISPs
>  for broadband connections ?

Many use simple bridging, which you don't need anything to use actually
but they do sometime use a DHCP server with 'original' options that
requires adaptation to the DHCP client code. It's not very difficult to
do but it will stop you from using it without doing the modification.

Why? :-)

Gilad.

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