help whith d s l conection

[Pete]

  Hi
  The ISP people don't know.  IP and DNS and HOST name and a few others
don't have any meaning to them.  I am prety sure it is PPPOE.  I found an
enter net client for linux though.  The high speed modem people told me a
driver is not required for the modem.  It acts like a bridge I think he
said.  How do I edit files? Wait, what's the easiest editor to use in linux?
  Thanks!
  Pete

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Wood" <cpt.kirk at 1tree.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: help whith d s l conection


Call your ISP and ask if you are using PPOE. I would bet that if you need
this program installed, you are using PPOE. If so, then you don't get your
address from DHCP. You get your address from the PPOE client (net300). SBC
uses PPOE almost exclusively for residential DSL. Many companies use it
because of the security risks involved with a straight connection.

The only other thing would be to attempt to manually get the address via
dhcp using the hostname that is assigned to your windows computers. The
ill fated @home network used this scheme. The computer name detirmined
what address was assigned via dhcp and if the computer name wasn't what
they assigned it wouldn't get an address. But again, you probably are
using PPOE.

=======
Kirk Wood
Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net

Nowlan's Theory:
        He who hesitates is not only lost, but several miles from
        the next freeway exit.



_______________________________________________
Speakup mailing list
Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup