[TriLUG] Verizon DSL Connection Problems

[Tom Bryan]

On Sunday 18 November 2001 09:51 pm, you wrote:
> I have just gotten DSL from Verizon and all appears to
> be working fine, from M$ Windows.... but I am having
> troubles using pppoe from Linux.  Does anyone else in
> the Durham area have Verizon DSL working?  If so I'd
> really appreciate any advice you can offer.  There must
> be an easy fix, only being a DSL and PPPOE newbie I am
> struggling to find it.

I'm not a DSL user, but I have a cable modem.  Are you sure that you need to 
use PPP over Ethernet?  Other than tweaking my firewall, configuring the 
ethernet interface for DHCP was about the only thing that I needed to do to 
start using RoadRunner.  
---Tom