Re: Making a DSL server
On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 01:18:32AM -0800, nate wrote:
> Michael D. Crawford said:
> > That would be great if I could just do DHCP ethernet.
> >
> > But I have visited people who had DSL connections in their homes, that
> > required them to run some windows program to authenticate.
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> if thats the case then I reccomend not using such providers. As you will
> probably come accross providers that use USB modems which are not
> supported, or internal PCI modems.. Qwest for example used to sell an
> internal Intel PCI modem for DSL service(it was that or the external
> cisco when I ordered), which as far as I know was/is not compadible with
> linux(at least at the time).
It wasn't even compatible with Windows 2000 (and Qwest was still
providing them after Intel stopped supporting that model)!
>
> you may be better off just going with a dialup connection or ISDN. At
> least with dialup there are several large nation wide ISPs(and world wide)
> you can test with, I would expect them to use the same form of authentication
> throughout their POPs.
>
> nate
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