[plug] Help with ADSL Modem for a Newbie

[Garry]

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| Hang on tho', I'm sure Craig has said somewhere else that the pppoe client
| under woody had "issues". Can anyone first confirm if this is so before
| Tim attempts to set bridged mode ?

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| It's worth a try. If you don't get a ping response, ask again. Or someone
| will correct any blunder I've made :-)
|

I'm not sure if pppoeconf has issues in the woody version, but it has
worked flawlessly for me. My dodgy old Toshiba laptop has been up for
the 30 days since I installed woody, and only telstra have killed the
connection occasionally I think... (freebsd 5.2 was a bit crashy -about
every 2-3 days- on the same hardware, Woody is doing the same gateway
job plus a lot more, so I am happy with Woody's stability..)

This is using one ethernet card, an old Xircom PCMCIA, providing both
the eth0 and ppp0 interfaces quite happily.

(http://garry.linuxit.com.au/uptime.php)

And no Harry, you were exactly right as far as I can see... 8^)==

HTH

Garry

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