🚀 go-pugleaf

"Aaron M. Ucko" wrote:
> 
> Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net> writes:
> 
> > Then look in /etc/rc.d if you've got something sane like RedHat. You're
> > looking for a file probably called /etc/rc.d/rc.M which should call
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
> [...]
> 
> While that works for some DSL setups I've encountered, Verizon is one
> of those providers that uses PPPoE rather than a more direct
> arrangement, so you will have to install and run a PPPoE client.
> Again, I have found Roaring Penguin's to work.

Thanks, haven't had to deal with it, avoiding it while I can. 

No wonder their system sucks, from what I've heard. 

Seriously, you should only have to set up the ethernet to talk to the
router, anything above and beyond that unless you're doing IPSEC is bogus,
and the way Verizon is oriented to dynamic-IP, implimenting IPSEC would be a
daunting challenge.. though maybe worth it if you could pass IPv6 tunnels to
get static-IP-IPv6 over dynamic-IP aDSL. 

Something to ponder, eh? challenge your buds at MIT, if you would, please.
Non-public discussion, don't want Verizon to block ports all over the place.
Or maybe we would, if we wanted them to be loathed out of business. 

> 
> Incidentally, I have no idea where the init script you quoted comes
> from (Slackware?), 

Yup. Great stuff, pretty BSDish as opposed to yacky SysV-ish stuff. 

> but the setups I've encountered recently (in Debian
> and Red Hat) tend to split configuration data out into separate files
> so that users don't have to touch their init scripts.

Insane! So how the heck is anyone supposed to learn anything?

Oh, that's right, they want only RedHat Certified LinuxGeeks (tm) to be able
to figure out their screwy set-ups. and people wonder why I won't put RedHat
on my boxes, maybe because they're trying to be the Micro$oft-of-gnUNIX and
I loathe "propriatarism". 

> 
> --
> Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)

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