[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Verizon FIOS and PPPoE

[Jack Snodgrass]

To answer my own post.... I'm connected via Verizon FIOS using my linux router
running rp-pppoe. Seems to be working fine. I did some speed tests and the
differences were negligible. 

Takes 7 minutes to download FC4 Test1 CD1.iso from readhat. Got to find a
2.5ish Gig DVD iso image and see how long that takes to download. 

jack 

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 07:36:10 -0600, Jack Snodgrass <mylinuxguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am going to get 15Meg/2Meg Verizon FIOS installed on monday.... woo-hoo...
> 
> They will give me a dinky, little D-Link router that does PPPoE. These routers
> have been optimised to handle the 15meg speed on the WAN port... something
> like that...  A normal router that does PPPoE is supposed to work, but not
> as fast...
> 
> Anyway... I'm hoping that I can use my Linux Router that I have set up with
> 4 interfaces and not use the D-Link router. I like the way my router is set up
> now with the firewall and port forwarding that I know how to use. If
> the optimation
> that Version has done to the Dlink router really is so that it can handle more
> traffic on the WAN port, then I think that my linux pc should be fine.
> Has anyone
> else gotten Verizon Fios and tried to use a linux PPPoE client to connect?
> 
> Is there a PPPoE server that I can run on linux to test out a PPPoE linux
> client... something that will let me set up a private, PPPeE link?
> 
> Thanks - jack
>