[ale] Bellsouth DSL?

[Mark Angeli]

Ok, I was going to keep quite, but what the hell....

I've been on BS DSl since um, 2001. 

I have an alcatel speedtouch at home modem, ethernet.

I'm also running nothing but Mandrake 9.1 at home.

I've gotten bellsouth up and running on several different boxes. From
home built routers running smoothwall, to lynksys wireless routers.

It couldn't be easier.
BS uses (so does earthlink) PPPoE. As someone else said, if you get the
Ethernet modem, all you need really is RPPPPoE.

RP is awesome.

Mandrake, if you set it up right, notices the eth0, and you can choose
the connection type. Choosing ADsl allows you to put your info in and
go. Even starts it on boot for me.

Outside of a couple of problems when I first got the line, bellsouth has
been pretty good.

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 09:17, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>   Don't know what type yet, he's supposed to order it this week, figured
> I'd do some advanced reconisance.
> 
> Thus spake Bruce Griffis (griffisb at MoreSpamPlease.bellsouth.net):
> 
> > On Sunday 01 June 2003 11:55 pm, Fulton Green wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 06:07:38PM -0400, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > > Depends on the DSL router.  Some of the more recent models support PPPoE.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > I have BellSouth DSL and am using a Linksys BFSX41 router (or something like 
> > that). I put my Westell aDSL modem into bridge mode, and my router is the 
> > PPOE client towards BellSouth.  Do a quick google on Broadband Forums, that's 
> > where I got good information on setting up my Linksys (and my Netgear before 
> > I switched to Linksys).
> > 
> > As far as my Mandrake PC (with Apache) is concerned, it's pure Ethernet. If 
> > you are using DSL and want outside access to your servers, you can use 
> > DynaDNS to provide a dynamic hostname and port-forwarding to get you to your 
> > server.
> > 
> > What kind of router are you using? Will it provide NAT and firewall 
> > functionality? 
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> :wq!
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