Re: [expert] Question of ppoe
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 __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question of ppoe
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question of ppoe
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question of ppoe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 - -- Greg -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Uxw4Gu5uuMFlL5MRAv47AJ9gbkDPM26fNkonc7TBinbFoHrdPgCfS5dd px9MlC6wtI8NpW1Mnd62li0= =nidk -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Question of ppoe
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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
