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Re: PPPoE +Debian ?



At 09:19 AM 8/2/01 +0200, Chris Halls wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 11:21:41AM -0700, Adam Shand wrote:
>> first make sure your ethernet adapter is setup and does *NOT* have an ip
>> address.  this works for me (note: i have not yet found a way to enable
>> the ethernet device to work to talk to local devices *and* to work with
>> the pppoe driver.  it works under windows but not under linux that i can
>> see):
>
>On my Woody install I have had no problems at all getting pppoe to work
>over an active ethernet connection.  I have a small 10Mb hub with all my
>machines connected, and the DSL cables comes in there too.  Not very
>elegant, but it definitely works.  I've been using 2.4.x kernels.
>
>Chris
>

Holy Hell.

That's sounds like a VERY insecure setup.

I could be wrong but hub's broadcast... and running the ADSL straight into the hub would make it possible for an outsider to sniff your network....



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