Verizon DSL

SuperMike ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Sat Aug 13 13:58:16 UTC 2005


Eric S. Johansson Wrote: 
> Rajiv Vyas wrote:[color=blue]

> yes.  go spend 60$us on a linksys firewall and let it do the PPPoE for
> 

> you.  I did this for a friend of mine and it's working great.  Another
> 

> advantage is that you can put as many machines as you want on the
> network.

> 



Yep, I'm doing the same thing and Verizon will at least support someone
adjust their firewall settings for a popular standalone electronic
firewall device like Linksys, since they will not support Linux. The
way I did it was setup my PC under Windows with Verizon DSL and prove
that this works. Then, I wrote down the username/password settings for
the DSL, along with the mail server address info and the mail server
user/pass. (BTW, if you can't get it to work with Windows or Mac OSX,
then don't proceed further. I mean to say -- if your DSL is not proven
to work first, then there's no bother setting up the standalone
firewall device because you have bigger issues.) Last, I put those
settings in on my firewall device, set it for PPPoE (PPP over
Ethernet), and I was off and running. Now I just worry about
authenticating to my firewall from my workstation and the firewall
handles my hop to the Internet. Oh, and one more thing, if you get all
this working, get lokkit for Ubuntu and install and configure it so
that you have a second firewall, just in case.


-- 
SuperMike




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