Re: PPPoE on Linux box

From: Mike Oliver (mike_lists_at_verizon.net)
Date: 12/11/04 

Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 11:02:28 -0600

Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 10:14:24 -0600, Mike Oliver staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
>
>>I'm going to visit my Mom in California, and she uses SBC DSL, which
>>connects via a PPPoE client using a password. Can I hook my Linux
>>laptop up to her DSL connection? Could someone explain how?
>
>
> Specifics depend on the distro and the version of the distro you're
> using. All you need to do on Gentoo is "emerge rp-pppoe", edit
> /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf to put the appropriate username and password and
> other options in, and do "/etc/init.d/adsl start" as root. Always
> include the distro you're using and its version number.

It's Debian Sarge. Seems to be version 3.1 (contents
of /etc/debian-version).

Will I still be able to mount remote ncp volumes
and so on when connected over PPPoE? What exactly
is the point of PPPoE besides making life difficult?

Thanks for your help so far, by the way.

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