PPPoE for RH 7.3

Russell Harrison rtlm10 at gmail.com
Thu May 18 18:28:01 UTC 2006


We used to have this parallel port CD drive we carried around at one of my
first jobs.  No idea where you could find such a thing now, and yes it was
SLOW.

On 5/18/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Alfred Hovdestad wrote:
>
> > Does the Thinkpad have a USB port?  If so, you should be able to install
> off
> > of an external HDD or CDrom.  You can also install off of an NFS server.
>
> I'm pretty sure that i486's are before the era of USB (though I'm not at
> the machine just now).  Interesting suggestion though.
>
> Is there such a thing as a USB-to-PC-Card adapter or a USB-to-serial
> adapter, or even a PC-Card CD-ROM?
>
> >
> >   Alfred
> >
> >
> >
> > Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Russell Harrison wrote:
> >>
> >>> Out of curiosity, what is preventing you from updating it?
> >>>
> >>> Not have the time to do the update is a totally valid answer.  I'm
> just
> >>> trying to understand what are the things keeping people on really old
> >>> releases in general.  I know 7.3 was solid as a rock but its pretty
> out of
> >>> date.  From the number of machines that keep popping up running 7.3there
> >>> must be some good reasons for sticking with it.
> >>
> >>
> >> Lack of memory, lack of CD drive (I know that can be worked around, but
> it
> >> would be painful), lack of disk space, lack of processing power.
> >>
> >> It's one of those classic Thinkpads with the butterfly keyboard, so I
> want
> >> to keep it doing something useful, but it can't really be a useful
> portable
> >> machine anymore (10" screen, i486, limited memory, limited disk, dead
> >> battery).  Firewall in a home DSL or cable context is a perfect use for
> it.
> >>
> >> I did update to use iptables instead of ipchains, but I'll keep running
> 7.3
> >> until it's dropped by FedoraLegacy.  Then I'll have to figure out how
> to
> >> install one of the firewall distros without a CD drive.
> >>
> >>>
> >>> On 5/16/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> My DSL provider is changing from bridged to PPPoE.  I've got an old
> >>>> laptop
> >>>> running RH 7.3 (can't be updated) acting as a firewall/router.  I now
> >>>> need
> >>>> a PPPoE client.  What is the package to use for this purpose in RH
> 7.3?
> >>>>
> >>>> TIA.
> >>>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
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>
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