[plug] Fwd: ADSL and Debian

[Simon Scott]

	1) Yes, they must sight it , so just borrow one from someone.
Besides, you have to install onto a windows box anyway, and when they
install the driver itll ask for the windows cd. Make sure you have the same
version as the one installed.
	2) I run my ADSL link thru a debian server. Just install pppoe, but
remember to drop the MTU on the eth interface to 1412 or something before
you start upgrading stuff. The version of pppoe with potato is a little old,
grab the latest deb, it is more stable.
	3) Yes, all clients must have an MTU of 1412 otherwise its very
flaky. This isnt needed with the latest version of pppoe however, there's a
command line option which negates having to hack win98 registries etc. This
came as a welcome relief to me since mac os 9 doesnt have many networking
options...

	Its pretty easy to get up and running. I still have problems where
it  doesnt always start, and the logs dont tell me  much at all, but if I
try to start it 20 times in a row and then leave the machine for 5 mins it
sorts itself out with hopefully ppp0 up. Id like to solve this problem but I
believe it may be a bug that they already know about and its something so
low level they are having troubles nailing it.





	From:	Beau Kuiper <kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au> on 02-05-2001 10:37
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	Subject:	[plug] Fwd: ADSL and Debian

	Beau Kuiper

	Don't have adsl, so I wouldn't know (yet)

	Beau Kuiper

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	Subject: ADSL and Debian
	Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 10:31:01 +0800
	From: "Jeffery Wong" <jeff at linuxwa.com.au>
	To: <kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au>


	Hey Beau and PLUGGERS

	I knew I'd seen you in Curtin b4. (Beau)
	Anyways, some of you were talking about your experiences with ADSL
during
	the last PLUG meeting.
	Telstra has responded and I will be getting my ADSL done up on
Tuesday.
	(yaaayyy !)
	Anyways..... a few questions.

	1) Do I really really have to have a legitimate copy of Windows for
them?
	2) I will be putting in on my Debian gateway box after Telstra
leaves
	(what's new :-}) Any pointers to start me off? I have never had any
	experiences with ADSL. Right now my gateway is talking to the
outside world
	on 56K.
	3) Some of you were saying that lowering the MTU rate would speed up
	connections or something.

	Please advice and all advices greatly appreciated,

	-Jeff-

	Btw, 'Samba' is now 'Lexus'.

	----- Original Message -----
	From: "Beau Kuiper" <kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au>
	To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
	Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 9:59 AM
	Subject: Re: [plug] Weird FD0 problem...



	many different version of unix:

	Ark: It is redhat 6.2 on P-III 650
	moses: it is redhat 6.2 on P-II 450
	samba: I think it is freebsd on some rather large machine.

	plus many many many others :-)

	Saying too much
	Beau Kuiper
	kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

	On Wednesday 02 May 2001 09:34, madco wrote:
	> At 09:31 2/05/01 +0800, you wrote:
	> >I would say 70% of the labs in the computing school are redhat
boxes !
	> >Don't know about the rest of the schools but I'm sure there is at
least
	> >another lab with Linux from some other faculty / school.
	> >
	> >-Jeff-
	>
	> I am in the business school. I'll try to find out, what they are
running

	as

	> servers.
	>
	> >----- Original Message -----
	>
	> From: "madco" <madco at iinet.net.au>
	>
	> >To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
	> >Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:38 AM
	> >Subject: Re: [plug] Weird FD0 problem...
	> >
	> > > At 20:20 1/05/01 +0800, you wrote:
	> > > >Ok, I've just tonight discovered that the floppy drive in my
Linux

	Lab

	> > > > I run at
	> > > >Curtin doesn't work at all. ie; Students wanting to use Good
Ol'
	> > > > Floppies (yes,
	> > > >they do exist), want to transfer their assignment, etc,
to/from

	Linux,

	> >and it
	> >
	> > > >doesn't work!
	> > >
	> > > There are Linux Labs at Curtin?? I did not know that yet,
where are
	> > > they? I have never come accross that fd0 problem.
	> > >
	> > > Christian

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