Hi, El lun, 16-04-2007 a las 10:46 +1000, Geoff Shang escribió:
> I'm about to move to Israel with my wife. We've managed to land ourselves > a good deal for cable Internet, and I've been reading conflicting > information about how it works. The best way I found to deal with cable was calling to the ISP( but never to HOT!) and ask them for Linux support otherwise I´ll move to other ISP. They instantly gave me a direct connection so I didn´t have to worry about protocols for the DHCP. The method works pretty well with many ISP. > The howto at > http://tx.technion.ac.il/~eyalroz/linux_cable_pptp.html says that everyone > uses PPTP. The howto at http://iglu.org.il/amit/cable seems to indicate > that this was changing, and the IGLU FAQ says all you need is a DHCP client > and the cable modem. I've also heard from other sources that it uses > PPPoE. So which is it? AFAIK and at least until four months ago, cable uses L2TP. For more information check out http://www.netcheif.com/Articles/BrdBandDefs/BrdBandDefs.htm > Thanks in advance for any help you can give. It's confusing trying to get > technical questions answered from the other side of the world when you don't > speak the language. Cheers, -- > > Julian Daich <[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]
