Re: PPPOE connections and Linux ....

From: Leon The Peon (noemail_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 10/14/03 

Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:43:05 +1000

"Mairhtin O'Feannag" <irishboyca@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9412E641B9805mairhtinofeannag@64.164.98.49...
> I have a seeming "newbie" question. I'm new to this aspect of thing,
> mostly because I usually have static IPs when doing this sort of thing.
> :)
>
> We have a client who wants to use their PPOE connection, but wants to
> have a firewall "appliance" (just a barebones minicase running RH 8.0)
> and as a part of that, expects it to be a "router" of sorts. They
> currently have a Linksys "router" that has the ability to "log on" to the
> provider (SBC, sadly). This means that the client machines behind the
> "router" do not have to "log on" every time they want to use the
> connection. SBC provide a mechanism to do the "log on", but I think only
> for Windoze.

Actually the linksys device is a router , not a modem.

with a modem, the client has to log in
With a router, the client doesnt have to log in.,

windows +adsl modem = nothing
Linux + adsl modem = adsl router.

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