DSL & linux

[Cyber Source]

Robert Meyer wrote:

>I've done it for both my father and myself.  The big problem that you're going
>to run into is that they INSIST on you installing their software and then going
>through the whole registration process on a Windoze box.  If you call up their
>tech support to get online, they'll give you a hard time 'cuz of their
>'policy'.
>
>Having said that, if you call up the tech support and talk to them, you might
>be able to get them to give you the username and password.  If not, they WILL
>give you the username.  Hang up with tech support, call back and say you forgot
>your password.  They'll set a new password and give it to you.  The office of
>the secretary will disavow all knowledge of your existance if you are caught...
>:-)
>
>Just hope that you don't get the same tech, twice in a row...
>
>I then went into the configuration tool on Mandrake 10 and set up an 'ADSL´
>connection.  Verison uses PPPoE to do it's stuff so this is a simple thing. 
>After I proved the connection works, I jacked into my WRT54G (Linux based)
>wireless router and set up the connection with the username and password that I
>got.  It works fine and I have never had a problem with it.
>
>Something that I noticed recently is that on business accounts, Verison has
>started shipping Westell wireless routers to the customer.  This router has
>four ethernet ports and a wireless connection that all work from the same DHCP
>pool.  I haven't set one of these devices up, yet, so I don't know what the
>process is to get the username and password into them.  They provide a CD with
>the thing but I don't know if you have to use it or not.  If somebody gets to
>do this, post it to the list so we have the information on it.  I'm quite
>curious, at this point.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- ron browning <ron_browning14223 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>Any hook up Linux to Verizon DSL?  Any basic HowTo?
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If you end up with a router, the router does the authentication, etc. I 
have worked with those and they REALLY suck, very bad performance. I can 
give you a few people using them that can attest to that. I would put in 
my own router at that point.

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