[NTLUG:Discuss] swbell dsl

[Daniel L. Shipman]

RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] swbell dslI am running two DLS lines with linux one running KRUD the other RedHat 6.2 - I run 13 windoz machines through them and 4 MACS - I have no problem and love DSL - my only regret is that I couldn't go with a real ISP who could relate to how I run my business - I had to go through SWBinternet - a bunch of idiots who can only configure MACs & Windoz - Once my contracts are up I will go with a company like netin.com - reasonably priced and totally awesome - there are others out there as well - I have not heard of August.net I will look into them. Mesh.net - is another that runs on linux they know what they are talking about - just very VERY difficult to get them on the phone - virtually impausible to get them to come out and help - at customer service they royally suck - other than that they are fine to go through - just don't go with swbinternet - very very bad choice on my part to go with them
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gorwood, Steve 
  To: 'discuss at ntlug.org' 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 6:46 AM
  Subject: RE: [NTLUG:Discuss] swbell dsl


  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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