[ale] DSL Router Distro

[Chris Fowler]

I did read the email.  I was reccomending a fast, easy, and proven
solution.  


On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 21:43, Douglas Bridges wrote:
> OK, I think both of you mis-read his email.  He wants to know what *distro* 
> has DSL routing functions, not which router.  Robert, it really depends on 
> what protocol you are connecting to DSL with.  Since you are asking about DSL 
> ID and password, I am guessing that you are talking about PPPOE.  Roaring 
> penguin is very good PPPOE software, and it is included in Redhat and 
> Mandrake.  I am sure that other distros use it as well, but I would probably 
> suggest Mandrake if you don't want to putz around with anything.
> 
> On Tuesday 08 April 2003 09:22 pm, Robert Heaven wrote:
> > I agree... I have one... Unfortunately, my company laptop (IBM stinkpad
> > with the company's customized Win2K) won't talk to it. All my other
> > boxes (including the Win2k box I built for company access) and other
> > co-workers laptops will talk to it. For some reason, this laptop just
> > won't ping the router.
> >
> > I've got a box on my LAN with 2 NICs that I loaded FreeBSD on just as a
> > test and I can get to the Internet through it just fine.
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 21:10, Chris Fowler wrote:
> >     I really like the Linksys products.  They work very well to do what you
> >     want.
> >
> >     On Tue, 2003-04-08 at 20:59, Robert Heaven wrote:
> >     > Which distro has DSL routing functions built in? I don't want to
> >     > download and compile anything. I just want to load (or boot) it from
> >     > the CD and type in my DSL ID and password and have it work. It would
> >     > also be nice if it has firewall functions pre-configured too.
> >
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