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by ball5ball5

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need to get infospeed dsl (bell atlantic) to network. using freesco now as router for cable modem, but since dsl doesn't use a dial in per se, it won't work. it uses PPPoE, or PPP over Ethernet. any help will be greatly appreciated.

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by ryan!

Try using roaring penguin pppoe client. It was written for linux, but it may work with freesco. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe
If you are not tied to freesco, RedHat Linux is pretty much set up as a router out of the box. Just add an rc.firewall file and you're all set.

by p.morin

If you go to the following links
and read the documents you should get a good understanding of what you
want to do, and how to do it.

www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO - read all teh networking and DSL howtos.

www.google.com/linux - look for info regarding this.

also, I downloaded the Roaring Penguin PPPoE software- works like a charm.
You may need to think a little about the dynamic IP's that your service provider will give you. This may cause problems if you are trying to set up services (ie web, mail) on the net.

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