On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:37, Paul Slootman wrote: > > You only need pptp-linux if you use an Ethernet attached modem instead of > > the USB attached modem (which is E50 cheaper). > > Yes, but often the line comes in many meters away from the system, and > the simplest thing is then to run some UTP to the ADSL modem.
In my apartment the line comes in many meters from my computer and I just ran many meters of telephone extension cable to my modem which is next to my computer. > > Also the Ethernet attached devices that they are selling are > > reprogrammable and have PPTP capabilities. Getting a Linux machine going > > without PPTP is doable. > > No. > In the beginning the ethernet attached devices were easily hacked (the > reprogramming you mention was in fact a hack, and would void any > warranty). Nowadays the capability to do this has been removed > entirely, as a colleague recently discovered when he tried this (he has > a Mac with OS-X, and is having trouble getting the link up if he doesn't > use the GUI interface to do that). I'm surprised to hear it's a hack. I am working for a major Dutch company that is planning a major roll-out of broadband connected machines, and we are planning to reconfigure all such modems as part of the standard installation. Maybe we are talking about different things here? > All of this, however, still doesn't answer the question why it was > removed, and why it can't go back in. True. I want to see it in too! > So your long legalistic sig is also void? :-) Correct, my sig does not apply when I send email to myself. ;) -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
