On ?, 2003-07-07 at 22:29, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any way for me to connect to ADSL using Alcatel Speed Touch 
> Home? I would rather, if I can at all avoid it, to not change it's 
> firmware, at least not to the pro version.
If by that you mean you want to use your Alcatel with PPPoE rather than
the tedious pptp on Redhat, you can easily change your modem's
configuration according to the instructions in:
http://www.isoc.org.il/%7Edoron/PPPoE.html
Then, all you have to do (On the recent Redhat releases, anyways) is run
adsl-setup.
You might want to avoid the "save settings" option when changing the
modem to pppoe, so that if you ever want to change back to pptp, you
simply need to restart the modem. I've been using pppoe for about a
month now, and I've noticed numerous disconnections - at least 10 a
week. When I used pptp, the frequency of disconnections was roughly once
per week. I haven't switched back to pptp to confirm that this indeed is
the problem (I try to avoid using packages not from the official pool),
so if anyone wants to report their experience with pppoe, I'd be happy
to hear it.
Amir.


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