On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 12:35:14PM -0500, David S. Cargo wrote:
> I'm getting DSL service from Qwest, and have encountered PPPoE for
> the first time.  I had seen the letters flowing around, but never
> paid much attention to them.
> 
> Anybody got sage words about how you connect your Linux boxes to
> DSL using PPPoE?
> 
> dsc
> 
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I have DSL from EarthLink, and they use PPPoE.
At first, I tried using the PPPoE they supplied (unsupported).
It was an old commercial package, and I don't think I ever got it going.

After some struggles, I installed RH7.1, which includes the open source
PPPoE from Roaring Penguin.  This came up very easily.  I haven't
had any problems with it.  It has a startup script in rc.d so it
comes up automaticly when I boot, and reconnects if it ever
disconnects.

John Hesterberg