>-----Original Message-----
>From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>
>Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 8:48 AM
>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card for puter
>
>On 2021-11-08, Laurence Perkins <lperk...@openeye.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk>
>>>Sent: Sunday, November 7, 2021 1:26 AM
>>>To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
>>>Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernet card for puter
>>>
>>>Only problem was a screw-up over the router - the fibre was terminated at an
>>>RJ45 in my house, but apparently needed a dedicated wan port on the router -
>>>you can't plug it into a standard port - so I was without internet until
>>>they sorted out a new router for me.
>>
>>
>> The *fibre* was terminated at an *RJ45*? Sounds like somebody screwed
>> up massively and said you had the wrong router so you wouldn't think
>> they were idiots. Either that or it wasn't actually an RJ45 and you
>> needed a router with a fibre port.
>
>The fiber is undoubtedly terminated at an ONT which has an RJ45 jack which
>then needs to be connected to what the ISP usually calls "A Modem". That
>"modem" is generally a firewall/router and WAP.
>
>The exact Ethernet protocols used on that RJ45 connection to the "modem"
>varie. Some do PPPoE, some just need some sort of authenticating DHCP client,
>so do other stuff.
>
>--
>Grant
Yes, that would make far more sense. A bit disappointing though if they
couldn't just tell him the authentication protocol to use...
LMP
