PPPOE ADSL connection

[Thilo Six]

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Alastair Preston wrote the following on 19.04.2006 04:47:
> On Tuesday April 18 2006 03:05 pm, Thilo Six wrote:
> 
>>Alastair Preston wrote the following on 18.04.2006 21:29:
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>><snip>
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>>>all I had to do was configure the ethernet connection to my ADSL modem to
>>>use DHCP (and disable pppoe).  What does the ISP's tech support say to
>>>do?
>>
>>Are you sure your ADSL modem isn´t a ADSL router?
>>
>>bye Thilo
> 
> 
> Yes, it's a modem, not a router. To be specific, a Linksys ADSL Ethernet 
> Modem, model ADSLME1.   When I first got it, I, like many others, followed 
> the instructions in the ADSL-HOWTO, and set up rpppoe before connecting.
> While that document does state that some ISP's use other protocols than pppoe, 
> it's setup instructions then go on in the apparent assumption that pppoe is 
> the only protocol the reader is likely to encounter.

Yes that was assumption, too.

> 
> When subsequent attempts to connect failed, I called the ISP's tech support.
> The tech then informed me (1) that the HOWTO's instructions were completely 
> wrong for their connections, since they do not use pppoe, (2) that I should 
> disable or remove the pppoe client (I did the latter), and (3) that I should 
> simply enable a DHCP client.  Following his instructions worked....

I didn´t know there were any ISP who do it like this.
Wow if i had the choice i would like to have that, too.  ;)

Would make the whole network configuration much easier.
Every Linux is prepared for DHCP but not for pppoe in the first step.

> Mind you, I gather I was lucky to talk to a tech who actually knew Linux, 
> rather than one who had the stock "we only support Mac and Windows" response
> on his cue card.

;)

bye Thilo
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