Adam Boettiger wrote:
Do any of the major ISPs offer dialup or broadband access that is compatible with Linux?I use verizon DSL and am on the west coast, so it's straight DHCP/ether here. Apparently the east coast verizon is ppoe. I read this on the web so it must be true.
I searched and all I came up with were hosting account providers, not connectivity.
TIA
AB
Anyway, I have a hard drive I keep handy that has windows on it. I had to use this to create an account with a cdrom that came in my verizon self-install kit.
After that, I just plugged an extra ether card into a spare linux box, cabled it to the dsl modem, let kudzu find it, set it to dhcp. It came up no problems.
Finally I installed and configured "shorewall" to nat/firewall my net, dhcp for the private side, and a caching DNS. I might get one of those broadband routers at some point...lots of people are using those with linux and they are very easy to use.
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John
