[ale] DSL/Firewall distro

[Gary MacKay]

I realize this is a linux newsgroup, buuuutttt, I have several OpenBSD 
boxes using ppoe over dsl running just fine for many months.

- Gary

exo wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> How is it going.  Is there some good small distro which has full support
> for pppoe (bellsouth dsl, ethernet modem).  i tried smoothwall and
> clarkconnect, they don't work that good.  Clarkconnect does not connect to
> the network properly.  So far in windows the driver RASPPPOE,
> automatically connects if the line is dropped etc.  Does the linux pppoe
> from roaring linux have the capability.  Is linux pppoe support as good or
> better than windows.  I need to have nat, b/c I am using a win2000 to nat
> right now, and it sucks, that i have to use a powerful machine to do this
> stuff only.  It does the job fine, but i want a linux machine smaller and
> cheaper to do this.  I know there is Freesco, but i dunno about its pppoe
> packages, last time i tried, it was quirky, Too bad dsl isn't really dhcp,
> dhcp works great with linux.  Let me know what is going.  Is smoothwall
> good (i didn't see any proper pppoe connections or Clarkconnect.  Let me
> know what is the best and fastest method in doing this.  Let me know
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -e
> 
> 
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