rp-pppoe

[Michael T. Richter]

On Tue, 2007-03-07 at 22:06 -0400, Ed Smits wrote:

> forgot to ask, why use a third party tool? why not use pppoeconf which
> is installed by default, last time I tried it worked like a champ
> signing me on to my ISP when my router died at midnight.


I suspect that for each person you find for whom pppoeconf worked "like
a champ", you'll find at least one other person who felt "like a chump"
for trying it.  I've never had pppoe successfully connect to an ADSL
provider that about three different routers and Windows without a router
had no troubles talking to.  This across by now five (!) computers and
three physical addresses in varying combinations.  The (randomly
selected -- honest!) quote in my signature summarizes the whole DSL
support issue under Linux in general quite succinctly at this point.

-- 
Michael T. Richter <ttmrichter at gmail.com> (GoogleTalk:
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Never, ever, ever let systems-level engineers do human interaction
design unless they have displayed a proven secondary talent in that
area. Their opinion of what represents good human-computer interaction
tends to be a bit off-track. (Bruce Tognazzini)
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