DSL help please

David Rush ky0dr at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 9 15:38:34 CDT 2001


>SWBell, and some other DSL providers, use PPPoE instead of Ethernet, and I 
>don't know of any embedded routers that can handle that.  I've built one 
>Linux box to do firewall/routing over it, but many protocols, particularly 
>SSH and most VPN won't work.

I believe my LinkSys router (BEFSR41) supports PPPoE.  You may need to 
upgrade your LinkSys software (requires Windoze to do :^P).

I *think* it supports VPNs of some sort or another... but I'm not sure.  No 
reason SSH shouldn't work - it'll just do a pass-through.

David




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