Linux-friendly ISPs?
Robert P. J. Day
rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Aug 26 22:43:04 UTC 2004
On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, jdow wrote:
> The real question comes from a lower level. With DSL, at least, the
> question the first level staff finds baffling is how the DSL
> connection is wrapped. Is it straight Ethernet look alike with no
> encapsulation or is it wrapped PPPoE? But a little experimentation
> can usually solve that issue. And my suspicion is that PPPoE is used
> almost exclusively on all new DSL connections.
ah, that's a good point. i never had to worry about that since the
first thing i did was drop a linksys WAP router + 4-port switch next
to the DSL modem, and the linksys understood PPPoE, so i didn't have
to go the roaring penguin route. works great.
rday
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