On 02 Feb 2003 12:01:33 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote > On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 11:09, Boris Ratner wrote: > > > > Could you please tell me if the following info is correct: > > > > 1. Most of the broadband clients in Israel have to use pptp to connect to > > the internet.
Depends on which modems. The old batch (all what Rotal gives, the Alcatel that Bezeq sold) have used pptp (or PPPoA). The new modems from Bezeq (the externals) are PPPoE only. > > 2. Bezeq stopped supporting alcatel modems and started distributing some > > other ADSL modem which is USB only and has no support for Linux. > > Not correct. Bezeq uses at least one new non USB ADSL which is > compatible with Linux and we had report on this list from people > (Hetz, it was you, no?) that managed to get one of the USB modems > working too. I managed to make the ALE070 work with Linux. The ALE130 and ALE180 (PCI) could be used with Linux (my guess only) but Rotal didn't give me any hardware to play with yet. The Dynamode (external and internal), and the Apache can be used with Linux - but as I said, Google is your friend here :/ > > 3. There is no ISP in Israel that supports PPPoE connections (for > > appliances like routers,etc..) > > ISP support for PPPoE is not needed. In fact, as Doron Shikmoni pointed > out on this list in the past you can even set the Bezeq supplied Alcatel > modems to workj in PPPoE mode quite easily if you're willing to > fiddle with the ADSL modem's setting via it's web interface. All ISP's in Israel supports PPPoE. Fact is, it's not related to them so much - it's more related to Bezeq, which now officially supports PPPoE with their Samsung external modems (as well as hacked Alcatel modems - but you're on your own now). Thanks, Hetz ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
