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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

Alright, pppoe is back on this list! :-) I'll save that one for last since
it's the most foreign to me.

-casey

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Jose Bernardo Silva wrote:

> Casey,
>
> Don't be in such a hurry to count out pppoe... :)
> It might be easy for a ethernet router, but for a USB xDSL modem - see my
> howto (http://cosmos.oninetspeed.pt/jose.bernardo) on how I got pppoe to 
> work
> here in PT with the speedtouch 330, and see all the trouble I had to go thru
> with mandrake's firewall... I will try this weekend to merge it with the
> debian howto, and maybe then go ahead to try and replace my mandrake fw with
> sourcemage... As soon as I get a nice html interface to the firewall
> functions, as mnf has... :)
>
> ---
> Jose Bernardo B R Silva             | Source Mage GNU/Linux Section Guru
> jbernardo AT sourcemage.org            | http://www.sourcemage.org
> http://counter.li.org #245602
> http://cosmos.oninetspeed.pt/jose.bernardo
> jbs AT bandos.homelinux.com
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
> To: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
> Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 15:01:50 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] need help from ppp, pppoe and usb ethernet users
>
> > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:53:20PM -0500, Casey Harkins wrote:
> > > >
> > > > If you're using ppp, pppoe or usb ethernet on your SourceMage box, I 
> > > > could
> > > > use your help!
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently working on updating the network configuration for
> > > > SourceMage. The current work has focused on configuring the
> > > > /etc/sysconfig/network directory for standard ethernet connections.
> > > >
> > > > I would like to expand this tool (netconf) to configure ppp and pppoe
> > > > setups as well, but have little experience setting up ppp with 
> > > > SourceMage,
> > > > and no experience with pppoe. Also, I'm curious if any additional 
> > > > work is
> > > > required for setting up usb ethernet devices.
> > >
> > > I'm using pppoe for my internet connection, here's the basic things i've
> > > done to get it work:
> > > - NOT configure the ethernet device used for adsl/pppoe in the normal
> > >   network configuration
> > > - cast rp-pppoe, say 'yes' to the configure question (or run adsl-setup
> > >   later), insert username/password, done
> > >
> > > adsl-setup takes care of the ethernet device and the whole ppp
> > > configuration.
> > >
> >
> > Good deal, I can scratch pppoe off the list.
> >
> > -casey
> >
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