I took the router from Bezeq in the afternoon and it is now working
just fine! All I really had to do to get it working under RedHat 9
was:
rpm -ivh rp-pppoe
adsl-setup
adsl-start /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp1
Thanks again for all the help!
Now doing "cvs get gimp" is just a question of a few minutes. 8-)
Regards,
Dov
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:03:09PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dov Grobgeld wrote:
>
> > Thanks for this and all the other recommendations. In the end I decided
> > to upgrade to 750kBaud ADSL and take the Bezeq provided ECI 270PR router.
> > I let them now my discontent about having to buy a faster connection
> > (and paying more) than I need only because I am using Linux, but
>
> That's a shame, you could probably get your hands on an ADSL modem
> abroad if you had the patience.
>
> > screaming into /dev/null is probably as effective. I'm getting the
> > router this afternoon and will then try to set it up. Are there any
> > good links with instructions of what I have to do to my system (RH9) to get
> > it working?
>
> Start with "PPPoE Linux" and you should find lots of stuff about this.
> It's pretty stright forward, especially from what I saw about RH9 (never
> tried it myself, though). I think IGLU or guides.co.il and friends have
> Hebrew docs if you must (look through whatsup.co.il).
>
> >
> > Btw, once I have the fast connection I'm thinking of creating a
> > partition with bleeding edge Linux setup. Does someone have a good
> > suggestion about a good distribution /environment for continously
> > updating all packages?
>
> My debian unstable updates virtually every day (depends on which
> packages you have installed). And you if you have the time for this
> then find experimental repositories (like "unofficial KDE" or
> "gnome cvs" or somesuch) and report bugs about them too.
>
> If you like hearing your machine crunch binaries all the time (other
> than rebuilding X11 in a loop :)) then Gentoo is probably for you...
>
> --Amos
>
>
>
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