Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-20 Thread James Sparenberg
On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 22:06, civileme wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:45 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> > On Tuesday February 18 2003 11:34 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > > All,
> > >
> > >Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux
> > > (little do they know *grin*) any way they have DSL with SBC and it
> > > uses ppoe  I've never set it up and I don't know of a good
> > > document source.  Note that the person is computer literate but
> > > primarily a windows developer.  So this person expects a lot of
> > > things to work/act like windows. (Took me a long time to make this
> > > person believe that Linux doesn't need different driver CDs all the
> > > time)
> > >
> > >Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of
> > > instruction page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any
> > > suggestions?
> > >
> > > James
> >
> > Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), there's a wizard that just
> > asks some basic questions. I prefer to use Roaring Penguin, the rpm
> > (rp-pppoe) is on the CD's. Either should setup the connection with no
> > problems. For rp-ppoe, run 'adsl-setup', which, like MCC, also asks
> > some simple questions.  Actually 9.1, uses rp-ppoe during
> > installation and the connection is ready to go when you first boot
> > up. 'adsl-start' and 'adsl-stop', unless ofcourse, you tell the 9.1
> > installer to start the connection at boot.
> >
> >Coupl'a cautions, at least true for me with SBC thru SWBell.
> > "User", must be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', simply 'user' won't work. DNS is
> > automatic, and connection is dynamic IP, so don't enter any DNS
> > numbers or IP address if that's the case with the connection, ie,
> > dynamic, DNS from 'server'.  I choose 'none' for firewall during
> > adsl-setup, then installed and setup guarddog.
> >
> >  There's more info than anybody'd want in the 'DSL-howto', but
> > it's fairly easy reading, and has a trouble shooting section.
> 
> 
> In Mandrake 9.0 the Control Center script for setting up pppoe is seriously 
> flawed.  go to www.mandrakeexpert.com and see my reply to one person about 
> how to set it up and get it working on incident 49370.
> 
> Civileme
> 

How do you find an incident on this I'm doing great at finding the
top 10 people but searching for an incident isn't obvious.

James

> 
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Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-19 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 19 February 2003 04:45 am, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Tuesday February 18 2003 11:34 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > All,
> >
> >Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux
> > (little do they know *grin*) any way they have DSL with SBC and it
> > uses ppoe  I've never set it up and I don't know of a good
> > document source.  Note that the person is computer literate but
> > primarily a windows developer.  So this person expects a lot of
> > things to work/act like windows. (Took me a long time to make this
> > person believe that Linux doesn't need different driver CDs all the
> > time)
> >
> >Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of
> > instruction page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any
> > suggestions?
> >
> > James
>
> Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), there's a wizard that just
> asks some basic questions. I prefer to use Roaring Penguin, the rpm
> (rp-pppoe) is on the CD's. Either should setup the connection with no
> problems. For rp-ppoe, run 'adsl-setup', which, like MCC, also asks
> some simple questions.  Actually 9.1, uses rp-ppoe during
> installation and the connection is ready to go when you first boot
> up. 'adsl-start' and 'adsl-stop', unless ofcourse, you tell the 9.1
> installer to start the connection at boot.
>
>Coupl'a cautions, at least true for me with SBC thru SWBell.
> "User", must be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', simply 'user' won't work. DNS is
> automatic, and connection is dynamic IP, so don't enter any DNS
> numbers or IP address if that's the case with the connection, ie,
> dynamic, DNS from 'server'.  I choose 'none' for firewall during
> adsl-setup, then installed and setup guarddog.
>
>  There's more info than anybody'd want in the 'DSL-howto', but
> it's fairly easy reading, and has a trouble shooting section.


In Mandrake 9.0 the Control Center script for setting up pppoe is seriously 
flawed.  go to www.mandrakeexpert.com and see my reply to one person about 
how to set it up and get it working on incident 49370.

Civileme



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Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday February 18 2003 11:34 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> All,
>
>Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux
> (little do they know *grin*) any way they have DSL with SBC and it
> uses ppoe  I've never set it up and I don't know of a good
> document source.  Note that the person is computer literate but
> primarily a windows developer.  So this person expects a lot of
> things to work/act like windows. (Took me a long time to make this
> person believe that Linux doesn't need different driver CDs all the
> time)
>
>Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of
> instruction page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any
> suggestions?
>
> James

Mandrake Control Center (drakconf), there's a wizard that just 
asks some basic questions. I prefer to use Roaring Penguin, the rpm
(rp-pppoe) is on the CD's. Either should setup the connection with no 
problems. For rp-ppoe, run 'adsl-setup', which, like MCC, also asks 
some simple questions.  Actually 9.1, uses rp-ppoe during 
installation and the connection is ready to go when you first boot 
up. 'adsl-start' and 'adsl-stop', unless ofcourse, you tell the 9.1 
installer to start the connection at boot.

   Coupl'a cautions, at least true for me with SBC thru SWBell.
"User", must be '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', simply 'user' won't work. DNS is 
automatic, and connection is dynamic IP, so don't enter any DNS 
numbers or IP address if that's the case with the connection, ie, 
dynamic, DNS from 'server'.  I choose 'none' for firewall during 
adsl-setup, then installed and setup guarddog.

 There's more info than anybody'd want in the 'DSL-howto', but 
it's fairly easy reading, and has a trouble shooting section.
-- 
Tom Brinkman  Corpus Christi, Texas


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Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-18 Thread drake
I use SBC and just configured the network through drakconf.  It allows you to 
select pppoe and it's easy to use.

On Tuesday 18 February 2003 11:34 pm, James Sparenberg wrote:
> All,
>
>Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux
> (little do they know *grin*) any way they have DSL with SBC and it uses
> ppoe  I've never set it up and I don't know of a good document
> source.  Note that the person is computer literate but primarily a
> windows developer.  So this person expects a lot of things to work/act
> like windows. (Took me a long time to make this person believe that
> Linux doesn't need different driver CDs all the time)
>
>Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of instruction
> page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any suggestions?
>
> James



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Re: [expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-18 Thread Greg Meyer
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On Wednesday 19 February 2003 12:34 am, James Sparenberg wrote:

>Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of instruction
> page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any suggestions?
>
This page is from Tom's old docs section.  I didn't read it, but it looks like 
it has a lot of stuff in it.

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cpppoe.html

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[expert] Question of ppoe

2003-02-18 Thread James Sparenberg
All,

   Got an e-mail from someone who thinks I'm an expert with Linux
(little do they know *grin*) any way they have DSL with SBC and it uses
ppoe  I've never set it up and I don't know of a good document
source.  Note that the person is computer literate but primarily a
windows developer.  So this person expects a lot of things to work/act
like windows. (Took me a long time to make this person believe that
Linux doesn't need different driver CDs all the time) 

   Any rate I'm looking for a basic point and shoot kind of instruction
page that I can point them to to set up ppoe... any suggestions?

James




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