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Thanks for the response.
As it turns out, after having no luck finding any PPPoE
utilities within Oxygen, I dug around and found a fantastic PPPoE driver for
linux over at:
The great thing about this driver is (a) it doesn't require a
kernel patch/recompile and (b) it takes about 10 minutes to read the README, run
the make, edit your PAP file, and starting using the driver to surf the
web! The directions in the included HOWTO were clear and
concise.
Definately the easiest way to get up and running with DSL and
Linux. Kudos to the folks over at RoaringPenguin. Performance is
excellent- when DL'ing from fast sites, I'm getting the maximum throughput
possible through my 640kbit connection.
As an aside, Mandrake would be well served to include an easy
way (GUI off their HW control panel??) to set up PPPoE with their distro-- most
of the big Telcos are using it for DSL (for better or worse...). It's a
good selling point.
-Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: Eddy Cooper
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Cooker] How to test DSL? (BellAtlantic ADSL with
PPPoE) I have PPPoE working with oxygen but I'm not with
Bell Atlantic.. Anyway, I downloaded the kernel patch and user-space
program from http://www.davin.ottawa.on.ca/pppoe.
It requires a kernel compile and a small program in addition to configuring a
recent version of pppd. There is a good page with all the available linux
PPPoE clients here: http://www.sympaticousers.org/faq/linux_pppoe.htm
Eddy Cooper
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