[TriLUG] DSL and Linux

[Steven Blanchard]

Bryan Burroughs wrote:
> Howdy all,
>    Ok, so I think that for the sake of my computer illiterate mother, i 
> will probably need to create a box which will give her an ionternet 
> connection through our DSL provider.  I am pretty familiar with getting 
> the box up and running and creating the network connections to the other 
> computers, but I don't know if there are any resources to make the DSL 
> connection will Bell South for a linux platform?

I am using rp-pppoe on my redhat 7.0 gateway to bellsouth DSL. It works 
great, except I am to lazy to make my firewall script update when the 
connection restarts. The manual pages are good, and there is even a 
setup script adsl-setup

~steven