DSL help please
Charles K. Lee II
chuckx at cold-sun.com
Tue Oct 9 15:21:40 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.
When I had SWBell with PPPoE, I was able to use SSH (in and out of the box)
fine. Never tried out VPN though.
> Why do you want to switch forom cable?
That's a good question. I've had both DSL and cable and I would definitely
choose cable over DSL anyday. It's faster and doesn't use ridiculous
protocols like PPPoE to make getting connected needlessly more complicated.
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