[linux-help] Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Marc Bachman

> Dear Friends- Thanks for the tip on PPPoE. What they?re sending me is an
> internal modem for which there are no linux drivers, and therefore I
> would not be able to use a linux firewall without having a proxy inside
> the gateway. How discouraging. So I read on and I discover that DSL
> routers are what more people have and that they?re not too expensive. I
> cannot imagine that a router would not work for me and that way I would
> not have a DSL interface that was OS dependent. I?m anxious to hear what
> you people out there know.

Unfortunately, a 'router' would not work for you since the DSL interface is the
internal 'modem'. You need an external 'modem' in order to have something for
the router to connect to. The internal card is the cheapest possible interface,
so that's why they are using it. It may be possible to pay an upgrade charge and
get an external 'modem' which could be used with a 'router'.  A lot of things
are technically possible, but you are likely to find that SBC limits your
choices to what's easiest for them to support.

--dwh

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Dale W Hodge - dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Vice Chairman & Secretary - info@xxxxxxxxx
Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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