[Sussex] pppoa

[Richie Jarvis]

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Jacqui Caren wrote:
> Steve Dobson wrote:
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>> Hi Angus
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>> John Crowhurst wrote:
>>> On Fri, April 3, 2009 13:25, Angus Robinson wrote:
>>>> Sorry, at times i do have a problem with what i want to do, in a an
>>>> email. I am wanting to make the linux box connect to the internet, so
>>>> the linux box does the authentication and the router would then be in
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>>> You don't want to do that, seriously!
>> I completely agree - this is WAN technology and best left to the ISP
>> geeks not the likes of us mortals.
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> I disagree - pretty straighforward stuff and you get an extra IP to
> play with if you run a block :-)

I also disagree - many routers will only tie to one IP address, and will
not allow you to have multiple IP's - by passing off the PPPoA part to a
Linux box, you can use a cheap single IP router to run an ADSL
connection with multiple IP's.  Don't ask me how to do it though, I've
only investigated it from an intellectual standpoint, as my routers
support multiple IP's.

> I found that a AMD64 server mobo has clock drift and unless you keep this under
> control, you end up periodically dropping the DSL lines...

Is this an AMD chipset on the mobo??
If so, the fix is to disabled the FSB Spread Spectrum option in the BIOS -
it played havoc with my MythTV box until I figured this out.
This is another possible solution to the problem:
http://www.knoppmythwiki.org/index.php?page=Nforce2TimeDrift



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