On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Larry Marshall wrote:
> > I saw Larry's post about PPPoE and it just depends on what your DSL service
> > is offering evidently not all offer PPPoE...
>
> Really? What are the alternatives? I thought the main thing that was
> allowing DSL to become reasonably priced was the simple pppoe
> approach. I'm also one of the dumbest guys on the planet when it comes to
> networking :-)
>
> Cheers --- Larry
That is possible but it depends on what is doing the PPPoE. My provider
swbell.net allows and configures for DHCP on the RJ45 side of the DSL modem. A
friend attempted to use PPPoE on his Linksys and failed at first and then it
worked after he had given up (now since I have not checked his setup I have no
idea if he switched it back to DHCP while he was attempting to connect multiple
times and failing or not...). I set my DLink router up with DHCP on the WAN
side and boom it worked just fine. It did not suprise me since my NT box and
Linux box had been setup for DHCP directly attached to the DSL modem. So, the
short of it: I am connecting to DSL (and have been for nearly 8 months) without
PPPoE. The only thing I can glean from my experience and those reported here
is that DSL can be configured multiple ways depending upon the provider. So to
me that means there is no universal answer to the burning question of how to
connect to DSL/Cable modems...
--
D.M.(Mike) Mattix
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
