I took the router from Bezeq in the afternoon and it is now working just fine! All I really had to do to get it working under RedHat 9 was:
rpm -ivh rp-pppoe adsl-setup adsl-start /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp1 Thanks again for all the help! Now doing "cvs get gimp" is just a question of a few minutes. 8-) Regards, Dov On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:03:09PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dov Grobgeld wrote: > > > Thanks for this and all the other recommendations. In the end I decided > > to upgrade to 750kBaud ADSL and take the Bezeq provided ECI 270PR router. > > I let them now my discontent about having to buy a faster connection > > (and paying more) than I need only because I am using Linux, but > > That's a shame, you could probably get your hands on an ADSL modem > abroad if you had the patience. > > > screaming into /dev/null is probably as effective. I'm getting the > > router this afternoon and will then try to set it up. Are there any > > good links with instructions of what I have to do to my system (RH9) to get > > it working? > > Start with "PPPoE Linux" and you should find lots of stuff about this. > It's pretty stright forward, especially from what I saw about RH9 (never > tried it myself, though). I think IGLU or guides.co.il and friends have > Hebrew docs if you must (look through whatsup.co.il). > > > > > Btw, once I have the fast connection I'm thinking of creating a > > partition with bleeding edge Linux setup. Does someone have a good > > suggestion about a good distribution /environment for continously > > updating all packages? > > My debian unstable updates virtually every day (depends on which > packages you have installed). And you if you have the time for this > then find experimental repositories (like "unofficial KDE" or > "gnome cvs" or somesuch) and report bugs about them too. > > If you like hearing your machine crunch binaries all the time (other > than rebuilding X11 in a loop :)) then Gentoo is probably for you... > > --Amos > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]