steve szmidt wrote:
>On Monday 01 November 2004 10:05 pm, Paul M Foster wrote:
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>>Folks:
>>
>>I'm preparing to move and to get Verizon DSL in Clearwater. (I have
>>Verizon DSL in New Port Richey at present.) The deal they're selling now
>>is that they'll give you a combination DSL modem with 802.11g wireless
>>router (you can turn off the router part). I'm not fond of commercial
>>routers because they're not as infinitely configurable as a Linux
>>router. Moreover I'm completely creeped out by using wireless because of
>>the security issues. Verizon DSL in Clearwater uses PPPOE.
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>Verizon DSL in Clw is DHCP, I have both cable and DSL and can interchange
>between them, so even if I had it wrong it would have shown up. Actually I
>tried PPoE and it did not work.
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Steve DSL reports forums have had a couple of people in EX-GTE
areas be assinged on PPPOE when everyone else is straight DHCP. So far
there has only been two reports in texas about this. Both were similar
to Pauls situation. Have verizion move to a different city and end up
with PPPOE. It something verizon has been saying they would do which
eventually have everyone on PPPOE. So if right now they just do new
customers with PPPOE and then eventually convert other people over or
the other thing i heard is that they were going to grandfather in
people. They might put people on PPPOE that are lookingto get the
3mpbs/768 upgrade. A number of secenarios but a PPPOE in GTE land was
something long rumored and has recently reared its head elsewhere.
>>This raises a some issues.
>>
>>1. From some casual reading, it appears that if you are given a router
>>in combination with a DSL modem, you may not need to use PPPOE; DHCP may
>>work for you instead. (Reference: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/
>>). I'm not keen on using the wireless router; does that mean I'm pretty
>>much stuck with PPPOE?
>>
>>2. In a normal PPP session, the connection times out after a period of
>>inactivity. Is this also true of PPPOE connections?
>>
>>3. If my Linux router handles the PPPOE part of the handshaking (as in a
>>Coyote Linux router, which I have), then can the machines behind the
>>router simply act as though this is a standard ethernet connection with
>>regard to the internet (which they do now)?
>>
>>Paul
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