[ale] DSL/Firewall distro

Adrin haswes at mindspring.com
Fri Jul 26 22:13:33 EDT 2002


I have used both Mandrake and now Red Hat with pppoe and
have little to no problems.
but then again I am not using Bellsouth. Which I am
beginning to understand or think they have their own PPPoE
standard.

Adrin


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary MacKay [mailto:gary at edisoninfo.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 5:09 PM
To: exo
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] DSL/Firewall distro


I realize this is a linux newsgroup, buuuutttt, I have
several OpenBSD
boxes using ppoe over dsl running just fine for many months.

- Gary

exo wrote:
> Hey,
>
> How is it going.  Is there some good small distro which
has full support
> for pppoe (bellsouth dsl, ethernet modem).  i tried
smoothwall and
> clarkconnect, they don't work that good.  Clarkconnect
does not connect to
> the network properly.  So far in windows the driver
RASPPPOE,
> automatically connects if the line is dropped etc.  Does
the linux pppoe
> from roaring linux have the capability.  Is linux pppoe
support as good or
> better than windows.  I need to have nat, b/c I am using a
win2000 to nat
> right now, and it sucks, that i have to use a powerful
machine to do this
> stuff only.  It does the job fine, but i want a linux
machine smaller and
> cheaper to do this.  I know there is Freesco, but i dunno
about its pppoe
> packages, last time i tried, it was quirky, Too bad dsl
isn't really dhcp,
> dhcp works great with linux.  Let me know what is going.
Is smoothwall
> good (i didn't see any proper pppoe connections or
Clarkconnect.  Let me
> know what is the best and fastest method in doing this.
Let me know
>
> Thanks
>
> -e
>
>
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