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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