A New User Experience
Lee Revell
rlrevell at joe-job.com
Thu Jul 27 02:54:53 BST 2006
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:18 +0800, Michael T. Richter wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-26-07 at 13:06 -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
> > > It sounds like we need more hardware details to debug this. Is it
> > > really that common for ADSL providers to require the host to use PPPoE?
>
> > In a word, yes. I can say with certainty that SBC does this, at least
> > in (some parts of?) Wisconsin.
>
> I've never seen a DSL provider in Canada nor in China that didn't use
> PPPoE. Cable? Doesn't. China Railcom (who uses some bizarre system
> of their own)? Doesn't. But any actual DSL provider? Never seen one
> that didn't use PPPoE.
Yes, mine uses PPPoE too. The difference is that each PC is not
required to connect via PPPoE - it's handled by the DSL modem, which you
just plug into via Ethernet or USB and get a NATed IP.
Lee
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