Thus spake dman: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 07:30:23PM -0500, spongyboy wrote: > | Hello. I am brand new to this. When replying to me, you may write me at > | spongyboy@yahoo.com > | and share your ideas about my problem. > | I have a c309 ether net card. This is hooked up to a hub. The hub goes > | into a fire wall box. The fire wall box is what is attached to a dsl > | modem. But the linux box is not the computer with the dsl software on it. > | My friend has dsl. His machine is the one with the win poet software. > | What network protocal should I use to access the net? When using windows, I > | just start internet explorer. My computer just looks for a lan > | connection. How can a linux machine do the same thing? > > What the box looks for is a DHCP server to tell it what IP and what > DNS servers to use. > > In /etc/network/interfaces you want : > > iface eth0 inet dhcp WinPOEt is pppoe - I looked into it but can't remember now. I believe there is a kernel module for the protocol, as well as user space software. The one from ragingpenguin.com has gotten quite good reviews, although I have never used it myself. HTH, Steve -- The decision doesn't have to be logical; it was unanimous.
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