DSL help please

zscoundrel zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Wed Oct 10 01:30:02 CDT 2001


Yup, it does.  Mine works fine.

David Rush wrote:

> 
>> 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.
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> 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.
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> David
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