[ale] PPPulling my hair out

[Geoffrey]

Jeffrey D. Brown wrote:

> I had a great experience with Speedfactory as my dialup provider
> (seems like a thousand years ago), and their reputation on the list
> contributed a lot to my choice of DSL providers. My getting surprised
> by pppoe was my own fault; should've RTFFAQ more carefully.  Now I
> just have a little unplanned research to do before my service gets
> provisioned on Wednesday (a mere 6 days after ordering!).

If you're in a pinch to get connectivity going and you have an old box 
you can take advantage of, throw smoothwall or ipcop on it for a 
temporary solution.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey