On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 01:10:06PM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and I called them > up to ask if it would work with Linux. The woman at tech support > confidently assured me, over and over, that it would not work with > Linux. I spoke to her a long time, trying to figure out why it wouldn't > work. She said that since they use pppoe and not dhcp, I couldn't get > an ip address with a dhcp client. But Debian has a pppoe package, and > there are also things like rp-pppoe. Although she could not explain to > me why it wouldn't work, she was absolutely positive it wouldn't. > > The modem/router they give out as part of the deal is a Homeportal > 1000sw. I checked that on the web, and it looks to me as if it uses > pppoe to connect to SBC, and then assigns either static or dynamic ip > addresses to computers plugged into it. It also says that it is Linux > compatible. > > So I find it very difficult to believe that Linux will not work with SBC > DSL service, unless they are intentionally doing something to prevent > Linux users from using their service. So I was wondering if anyone is > using SBC DSL, or knows if it will work. Any info would be appreciated; > thanks. > > Ric
it will work until ~2 mos. ago I was using SBC DSL (originally the service was through "Ameritech" here, they were purchased by SBC) it sounds like the modem/router they give you will do the pppoe & your PC can just get it's network config w/ DHCP you'll need to configure the router with your username, password (you may want to check if the router has a web interface for configuration - not Windows-only software) if they give you a "modem" only (which they did in my case) your PC can do the pppoe by itself w/ rp-pppoe as you said ... -- Mike Strean
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