[ale] Bellsouth DSL?

[Robert L. Harris]

Yeah, my wife was adding the new channels and they asked for the MAC on
my cablemodem and I asked why, they did it voluntarily, I was quite
surprised.  I'm also pretty happy with service from them, it's been
almost flawless for quite some time now.


Thus spake Jim Philips (jcphil at mindspring.com):

> You just need the Roaring Penguin client to run pppoe. It's at:
> 
> http://www.roaringpenguin.com
> 
> Setup is a breeze. You can get a GUI add-on if he's not comfortable with 
> command line stuff.
> 
> On Sunday 01 June 2003 06:07 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > A friend of mine is finally making the jump from a modem and earthlink
> > to Bellsouth DSL.  This weekend we built him out a firewall and prepped
> > it for installation.
> >
> > I've never installed a bellsouth DSL hookup before.  I keep hearing
> > about PPPOE for them.  From his ethernet's side will he just have to
> > have drivers for his eth and the dsl router will do the upstream work of
> > the pppoe or are we going to have to configure his server to talk pppoe,
> > etc?
> >
> > Advice, suggestions, warnings in advance are appreciated.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > :wq!
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Robert L. Harris                     | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B
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> > DISCLAIMER:
> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> >
> > Diagnosis: witzelsucht
> >
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:wq!
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Robert L. Harris                     | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B
                                         @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu 
DISCLAIMER:
      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.

Diagnosis: witzelsucht  	

IPv6 = robert at ipv6.rdlg.net	http://ipv6.rdlg.net
IPv4 = robert at mail.rdlg.net	http://www.rdlg.net

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