Re: Can you connect linux to Verizon DSL?

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From: pat
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:38

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Tiny Human Ferret <klaatu@clark.net> wrote in message
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> Beartooth wrote:
> >
> >         Has anybody running linux connected to Verizon in the
> > NoVa/DC area? With or without IMAP? With or without a shell? With or
> > without a decent OS on Verizon itself?
> >
> >         If you can, do you have to be a supernerd to manage it? Or
> > even get it up and running?
>
> You need to be sure that your kernel supports PPPoE (recompile to be
sure),
> and make sure you have a recent version of `pppd`, and you have to adjust
> your /etc/ppp/options file to accept IPCP remote, meaning that your
machine
> will believe itself to have whatever IP address the other end of PPP tell
it
> it has.
>
> Verizon doesn't offer Static IP addresses,

Anymore.

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