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Re: udev and ethernet connections

No, Verizon wants customers even if they can use dhcp to only use pppoe. This had been made clear to me by them on another occassion but at that earlier time they didn't disable the connection. The only reason for pppoe is so verizon can force logins to happen. There's been some interesting developments over here. I actually have a Westel 327w modem. I went the other day and held the reset button in for 30 seconds using the point of a pencil and may have got the modem back pretty close to factory defaults. Interestingly though, the area for setting dhcp or pppoe connection on the web page the modem shows I can't find where to set that. Also having stored my verizon credentials in the modem, dhcp still isn't working so far as I can tell. 



On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Kevin Mark wrote:


On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 09:43:25PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:

I lost the credentials info for the modem and one time last year when
dhcp had been working for a couple days I had no internet connection at
all. Apparently verizon detected me using dhcp and broke my connection
down. The only way I can get out is by using pppoe.  Other people in this
area have been having similar problems even if they haven't lost their
log in credentials for their modems.

The login credentials are your email address and email password. Are
you suggesting that using dhcp to get an ip address from the westell
modem is illegal and cause for verizon to take some punitive action upon
you and 'break your connection'? PPPOE is only needed if the westell is
configured to not login/authenticate to the network. Otherwise, your
linux box just needs dhcp and the westell needs to be setup to
authenticate to the pppoe network by entering you credentials in its web
interface.
HTH,
Kev
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