John Lewis wrote: > I would strongly agree with Andrew on the router issue. At least if > the PPPOE client is running on your Linux box you have much more > control over how the link comes up and down. For instance you can > configure how often the client checks the other end of the connection, > if your DSL line is buggy it helps to minimise down time. Indeed a lot > of DSL routers seem to give up after having a few problems until you > reboot them. Not very good at all. > > As Andrew says most routers allow PPPOE passthru or bridging mode as I > more often see it. I even go one step further and use a USB DSL modem > and PPPOA instead. You don't need an ethernet card and I have found > the ping times significantly better. The Zoom 5510 and Dynamode USB > modems are conexant based and therefore compatible with Linux. I here > speedtouch are too but I haven't come across them.
Agreed ... Wrote a FAQ Entry for one of the Sconexant based USB modems :) http://firebird.solsys.org/mod.php?mod=faq&op=extlist&topicid=12&expand=yes#102 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Joerg Mertin : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Home)| | in Forchheim/Germany : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alt1)| | Stardust's LiNUX System : | | Web: http://www.solsys.org | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PGP Fingerprint: AF0F FB75 997B 025F 4538 5AD6 9888 5D97 170B 8B7A ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
