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Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net> writes:

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

Eh, it's not the greatest, but it works decently enough; my main gripe
is that my IP address changes every couple of weeks.  PPPoE *is* a
godawful kludge, granted, but transparent once set up.

> 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. 

In my experience, the IP address isn't all that dynamic, so something
of the sort shouldn't be too hard to set up.

> Something to ponder, eh? challenge your buds at MIT, if you would, please.

I actually graduated and moved to DC in June; I've just been too lazy
to move my mail/news setup to another account.

> 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". 

I'm no fan of Red Hat myself -- my systems all run Debian -- but I do
favor separating code from data when feasible, as one often changes
without the other.  Sure, it doesn't force users to learn as much, but
it still gives them the option, and the users that *do* look at the
scripts end up picking up cleaner design techniques.

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