I use SWB and i use linux, I didn't have to do anything special, i assume
swb set up that PPPoE because the guy just came over did something to my
jack and said good luck, at first I was only set up as DHCP so all I had
to do is set up DHCP for my nic card, and it worked...ABSOLUTLY NO
PROBLEM...then i decided to get static ips and i had to configure the DSL
modem, which was also easy...you don't even have to set up ppp
anything...it's really easy and moderatly cheap with SWB (from
experience) hence i would go with them...they also offer quite a bit of
support, if you need it, and have patience enough to wait on hold...
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Matthew Sayler wrote:
> I remember back in '00 when David Smith wrote:
> > SWBell is telling me that customer self-install is not available with
> > Macs, Win NT/2000, or Linux. Isn't there a way around this? Do
> > they mean that DSL won't work or that they don't think I can do it
> > myself? Can't I just use dhcpd or pppd? If anyone out there's done
> > this, can you tell me how you did it?
>
> I had them install in on a Win98 box and then promptly plugged the
> DSL into my firewall box when the tech. had left.
>
> Someone else mentioned that SWBell uses PPPoE if you use them as
> your ISP. This may or may not be easy to set up. If you want a
> Linux friendly ISP, you might consider jump.net. You'll still
> have to deal with a SWBell installe, beyond the support pretty
> decent.
>
> If you can't get jump.net to answer to your Linux problem over the
> phone, email will almost always yeild a response.
>
> I think there are also a couple of other jump.net users hanging
> out on siglinux as well...
>
> Matt
>
>
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