[wplug] dsl setup

Greg Simkins gregsim at telerama.com
Tue May 10 08:56:30 EDT 2005


A little cheap Linksys router should be all you need.  It works for me.

I worked on a Verizon DSL connection for a lady in Lebanon, PA.  I was 
surprised that they issued her a nonroutable 192.168.1.0 address.  If you 
don't need to serve anything, that should work fine.

Greg

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Romano" <romano.chris at gmail.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 8:27 AM
Subject: Re: [wplug] dsl setup


> On 5/9/05, kiesling+ at pitt.edu <kiesling+ at pitt.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I have just got DSL from Verizon (Please no tangential posts about the 
>> goods and bads of this). Of course the bad is linux support. I thought 
>> the connection was pppoe (based on discussions here), so I did what I had 
>> read in the Gentoo Handbook (this is a Gentoo distro). I run the scripts 
>> adsl-setup and adsl-start. But it times out.
>>
>> My wife has a Windows XP computer, it works fine. In the network 
>> connections it says the IP address is assigned by DHCP. I've tried that 
>> too, no luck.
>>
>> For both I've googled far and wide and follwed several howtos with no 
>> luck.
>>
>> So I feel pretty stuck. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>
> How are you connection to Verizon?  Do you have a router? Are you
> going directly to the modem? Is the modem connected to a switch/hub?
>
> The last time that I used verizon about 6 months ago it was PPPoE.  I
> don't think that they have changed anything since then.
>
> Chris
>
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