Re: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage? - Cause and Explanation

From: Joey Kelly <joey_at_joeykelly.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 21:12:56 -0500
Message-Id: <200408022112.56753.joey@joeykelly.net>

> If you are curious about the 3M/384K ADSL I can fill you in. It requires
> that you be within 13K feet rather than 18K for normal ADSL. It is only
> available via PPPoE (or PPPoA, depending on vendor), not bridged.

Do you still hand out static IPs with that?

> The same equipment you have now should work, except for needing something
> to handle the PPPoE. Most of the routers will do it, XP will handle it and
> I understand that there is a driver for Linux.

Both smoothwall and IPcop handle this. Also at least one of the BSDs does, if
I'm not mistaken.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous."
 --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL
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