Bruce - The roaring penguin client is by far the easiest to use - I successfully ran it for over two years with Verizon in NYC. As to DNS servers, I had the addresses so used them in my resolv.conf file. The documentation is excellent as well.
good luck. - Steve On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 08:50:21AM -0500, Bodnyk, Bruce W wrote: > I finally got my DSL line at home and want to configure potato as a router > for my home network. Reading the "DSL Howto for Linux" document it appears > that I need to a PPPoE client as my DSL provider "Verizon" uses pppoe. I > have a couple of questions though that hopefully someone can answer. > > 1. Which is the best vs. easiest client to use? I'm still rather new at > Linux and not sure I want to tackle rebuilding the kernel just yet. > > 2. Do I need my ISPs DNS IP addresses for pppoe? I called the support number > last night and they told me they didn't have that information to give me. > > Thanks! > Bruce > > Bruce W. Bodnyk > Staff Engineer, CAE Development > FCI Electronics > 825 Old Trail Road > Etters, PA 17319-9351 > > Phone: (717) 938-7543 > Fax: (717) 938-7224 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
