I just moved to an apartment where I'll be getting MTS ADSL (Shaw High Speed is not available). How do I set up Linux to use it? I know you need to use PPPoE, but I don't know how to do that. I have heard that you need to make other adjustments to take proper advantage of it. I'm getting "Starter DSL" (to start with), but I don't think that makes a difference. I'm currently running both Red Hat 7.2 and Gentoo 1.1a. How do I set things up? Thanks.
-Brian
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I just moved to an apartment where I'll be getting MTS ADSL (Shaw High Speed is not available). How do I set up Linux to use it? I know you need to use PPPoE, but I don't know how to do that. I have heard that you need to make other adjustments to take proper advantage of it. I'm getting "Starter DSL" (to start with), but I don't think that makes a difference. I'm currently running both Red Hat 7.2 and Gentoo 1.1a. How do I set things up? Thanks.
I'm currently using a broadband router (SMC Barricade) which does PPPoE for me, so I don't need anything special on Linux to make it work. However, before getting the router, I was using Red Hat Linux 6.1 with Roaring Penguin's PPPoE software, which was available as an RPM package. (I'm sure a google search would turn it up fairly quickly.)
It was easy to set up and didn't need any kernel patches, which was a real plus for me, because it runs entirely in user-mode. Before installing it, I read some discussions on the sympatico newsgroups about different PPPoE solutions. Some people had a low opinion of user-mode PPPoE implementations because they're less efficient that kernel-mode ones. I decided to try it anyway, because it was easy, and never noticed any problems with slowness on my 200 MHz AMD K6 machine, so I never saw the need to upgrade to a much more complex kernel patch to speed things up. I suspect that unless I had an even slower machine, or wanted to compile big packages while downloading other big packages, I'd never notice the difference.
According to Brian Doob:
I just moved to an apartment where I'll be getting MTS ADSL (Shaw High Speed is not available). How do I set up Linux to use it? I know you need to use PPPoE, but I don't know how to do that. I have heard that you need to make other adjustments to take proper advantage of it. I'm getting "Starter DSL" (to start with), but I don't think that makes a difference. I'm currently running both Red Hat 7.2 and Gentoo 1.1a. How do I set things up? Thanks.
A quick Google search for redhat, adsl, and pppoe came up with several hits, some more useful than others (as usual). Among the most useful (at least as far as I browsed) was this one...
Configuring a Secure Linux® ADSL PPPoE Connection http://www.skaht.com/linux/adsl/
It tends to focus particularly on the security aspects, but does give some background on PPPoE setup, including some nice diagrams and some advice on startup script setup. It doesn't focus on Red Hat 7.2 specifically, so there may actually be a simpler way of setting things up in a way that's consistent with the Red Hat way of doing things.
Brian Doob wrote:
I just moved to an apartment where I'll be getting MTS ADSL (Shaw HighSpeed is not available). How do I set up Linux to use it? I know you need to use PPPoE, but I don't know how to do that. I have heard that you need to make other adjustments to take proper advantage of it. I'm getting "Starter DSL" (to start with), but I don't think that makes a difference. I'm currently running both Red Hat 7.2 and Gentoo 1.1a. How do I set things up? Thanks.
A neat single disk Linux image which supports PPPoE can be generated at
Via the Web page you generate a disk image to match your configuration. Worked the first time when I tried it on PPPoE.
Great if you want to run an old PC as a firewall.
ttyl, Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Reid (204) 452-6590 993 Dorchester Ave. Winnipeg,MB R3M 0P9
On April 22, 2002 09:05 pm, Brian Doob wrote:
I just moved to an apartment where I'll be getting MTS ADSL ...
If your building connects your telephone to the front door security system, check to see if ADSL interferes with it. After my in-laws got ADSL, the code that they punch in to let visitors in stopped working, and MTS (the telephone people, not the ADSL people) had to come out to adjust the equipment.
When I first configured my dsl connection on linux, I was on Caldera ... I did the manual kernel rebuild method ... the dsl box of mine is currently on redhat 7.1 and from what I recall, it's built right in as a user-mode type app ...
Note the "S80pppoe" link below ...
Dan.
5:41pm up 201 days, 19:51, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 [root@fw rc3.d]# ls -aCF S* S05kudzu@ S13portmap@ S25netfs@ S56rawdevices@ S82sendmail@ S99local@ S08ipchains@ S14nfslock@ S26apmd@ S56xinetd@ S85gpm@ S08iptables@ S15arpwatch@ S28autofs@ S60lpd@ S90crond@ S10network@ S17keytable@ S40atd@ S80pppoe@ S90xfs@ S12syslog@ S20random@ S55sshd@ S81firewall@ S95anacron@ [root@fw rc3.d]#
Brian Doob wrote:
I just moved to an apartment where I'll be getting MTS ADSL (Shaw HighSpeed is not available). How do I set up Linux to use it? I know you need to use PPPoE, but I don't know how to do that. I have heard that you need to make other adjustments to take proper advantage of it. I'm getting "Starter DSL" (to start with), but I don't think that makes a difference. I'm currently running both Red Hat 7.2 and Gentoo 1.1a. How do I set things up? Thanks.
-Brian
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