Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-18 Thread Phillip Bennett
- Original Message - From: "Matt Causey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Phillip Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "SLUG-list" Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA In my understanding, PPPoE is the newer, more flexib

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-18 Thread Matt Causey
idea why I > thought that. > > Thanks, > Phil. > > > > - Original Message - From: "William Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "SLUG-list" > Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:08 AM > Subject: Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA > > &

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-18 Thread Phillip Bennett
- Original Message - From: "William Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "SLUG-list" Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 2:08 AM Subject: Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA Andrew Back wrote: [snip] That's what I thought, I.e. that you might only get PPPoE when an I

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-17 Thread William Anderson
Andrew Back wrote: [snip] That's what I thought, I.e. that you might only get PPPoE when an ISP has say taken advantage of LLU. But I have now been told by two different people that PPPoE can work, and a quick Google seems to reinforce this: The pages you cite are 3-5 years old! :) The who

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Back
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, William Anderson wrote: Matt Causey wrote: [snip] This is when I learned that Tiscali does -not- support PPPoE, but rather PPPoA. O'course, my Cisco PIX only supports the more flexible PPPoE method. Grr. Is this the case with all ISPs here in the UK? Anyone have an

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-17 Thread William Anderson
babaguy wrote: [snip] - ANYWAY, I certainly found configuring the Speedtouch AT ALL to be extremely complex and fraught with ifs ands and buts in various Linux message board postings from around Earth - I eventually settled - as I said to John Seago - on the Safecom ADSL Modem Router, though thi

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-17 Thread babaguy
Welcome Matt ! I ALSO hail from the Old Country, but have been here nearly 30 years ( ! ) - Just my 2 cents (ooops! PENCE ! ) - When I was trying to find a way of connecting to the net (at ALL) a year and a half ago, I picked up a Thomson Speedtouch modem from someone on Glasgow-Freeshare

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-17 Thread William Anderson
Matt Causey wrote: [snip] This is when I learned that Tiscali does -not- support PPPoE, but rather PPPoA. O'course, my Cisco PIX only supports the more flexible PPPoE method. Grr. Is this the case with all ISPs here in the UK? Anyone have an old Cisco ATM device sitting around? :) Welc

Re: [Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-17 Thread Andrew Back
Hi Matt, On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Matt Causey wrote: Hello all! I am new to this country, and had a quick ISP question. I've got ADSL service through Tiscali...and just to get started was using their little free router/firewall thing. This weekend I decided it was time to ditch their device an

[Scottish] PPPoE vs PPPoA

2008-06-16 Thread Matt Causey
Hello all! I am new to this country, and had a quick ISP question. I've got ADSL service through Tiscali...and just to get started was using their little free router/firewall thing. This weekend I decided it was time to ditch their device and install the PIX I brought here from the state