[NTLUG:Discuss] swbell dsl

[Gorwood, Steve]

I have dsl from swbell working on my system under both linux and windows.
I had some teething problems getting it up and running (due mostly to the
fact that I previously had no reason to get networking going on my
standalone
system), but once I had the ethernet support working properly dsl worked
immediately.

Regards,
Steven Gorwood

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com [mailto:Kyle_Davenport at compusa.com]
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 4:04 PM
To: discuss at ntlug.org
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] swbell dsl




I hate to bring this up yet again, but a friend jumped at SWBell DSL offer
for
his windows, and now finds he can't connect with linux.  I used to think
these
were all just DHCP connections, but after looking at the windows connection,
I
see it installs a dummy ip on the ethernet card and then a "PPPoE"
connection on
top of that with its own routing information.  I'm guessing it is "ppp over
ethernet".  Of course they do not support anything but windoze and mac.   I
suspect there might be additional authentication too, since the software
takes
you to a website to sign on the first time.

Has anyone got this working thru linux?  Was a solution brought up before?
Is
there a searchable archive of NTLUG's mailing lists?



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