Lara Hopkins wrote:
Onno Benschop wrote:
To connect to ADSL with the vast majority of ISP's you are required to
use a PPPoE client,
Not with Iinet's Corporate accounts, which is what I've been using up
till now. Ethernet modem, static IP.
From your perspective there will be no change.
I'm sitting here after several attempts to see if I can explain, keeping
the information simple is complicated, so bear with me...
There AFAIK are three ways to connect to ADSL:
1. Computer running PPPoE client connected via USB or Ethernet to ADSL modem.
2. Computer connected to LAN connected to Ethernet ADSL modem running raw
Ethernet over ADSL.
3. Computer connected to Airport Base (running PPPoE), in turn connected
via Ethernet to an ADSL modem.
1 and 3 are in fact the same, since the Airport Base is a computer. 2 is
possible, though not very common, since you need more expensive equipment
to set this up. Note that 1 via Ethernet or USB is the same thing, just the
cable is different - if you really want to get technical it's slightly
different, but I'm not getting into that here :-)
The only way that anything you are doing actually changes is if you are
swapping between 1 and 2.
Lara Hopkins also wrote:
I know the "Base Station works with iinet", as I'm currently using it -
but connecting with a static-IP account. The only difference will be the
PPPoE, which is why I tried to focus on that in my question. (The dangers
of giving too much system information? :-)
Soooo,
If you are currently running option 2, (which I'm not actually convinced of
given the information I have - I think you're using option 1 over Ethernet)
you need to add a PPPoE client to the system in some way (and likely change
the modem). In a single computer environment, you don't have an option, the
PPPoE client runs on your computer (or the Airport Base). However, you may
wish to introduce another computer which runs the PPPoE client if you are
sharing this connection with others.
I have set up several computers which do nothing but act as a PPPoE client.
They provide the LAN a gateway via the ADSL network to the Internet. For
completeness, they are Debian Linux 486 boxes running Roaring Penguin (use
the Roaring Penguin installer from the Roaring Penguin home page, IMHO the
Debian package is broken).
So, does this then answer your question, or does it hopelessly confuse the
issue?
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