[Sussex] pppoa

[Jan Henkins]

Hello Angus,

As you might have seen by now, PPPoATM for Linux is a bit of a minefield.
I won't rehash all the warnings (most of them sensible) given by other
list members, but where I differ from most other people is that I would
have done exactly the same as you, simply because I want to learn how it
is done! :-)

OK, apart from my shout of support, unfortunately no bright ideas from me
(thankfully my ISP supports PPPoE, which is a different matter). However,
the following links might be of help:

http://www.wlug.org.nz/LinuxPPPoA
- Interesting bits here is to do with kernel setup and so forth, might be
relevant or not. The reference to the linux-atm tools could be of help
too.

http://www.fwbuilder.org/
- Very comfortable (note not a quick-n-easy tool) firewall policy builder
for iptables, ipfw, etc. Why I mention it at all is that it compiles your
policy to a BASH shell script with iptables commands built in. This can
act as a nice learning tool, if you want to get to know iptables really
well. Alternatives would be things like Shorewall (excellent and extremely
powerful, but seriously fiddly).

On Fri, April 3, 2009 09:40, Angus Robinson wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am wanting to get pppoa up and running on a redhat linux box, i have
> put the modem in to bridge mode and have tried wtih pppoe but unable to
> connect something about "Timeout waiting for PADO packets". I can not
> find any infomation about pppoa on linux besides USB modems and they
> come with their own software. Has anybody used linux to connect on
> tiscali ADSL ?

-- 
Regards,
Jan Henkins