Re: PPPOE coming along?

[Brad Knowles <blk_(_at_)_skynet_(_dot_)_be>]

At 12:12 PM +0100 1999/11/21, Brad Knowles wrote:

> 	I'm shortly going to have a WaveLAN-stype setup here at home,
> connecting to an ADSL modem, and I will have a firewall machine
> on this network.  I'd really, *really*, *REALLY* like to be running
> OpenBSD (for obvious security reasons), and I assume that PPPoE is
> required.

	Nevermind.  It turns out that Alcatel did something heinously 
evil[0] in the way they handle residential ADSL authentication over 
here in Europe (they own something like 90% of the market for the 
telco side), so PPPoE isn't an issue.

	Of course, the standard ADSL package which would be paid for by 
my employer also explicitly prohibits more than one computer being 
connected (including through a router, firewall, or NAT server), so 
I'm going to have to decide whether I want to blatantly violate those 
rules (which they might be able to detect?), see if my employer will 
go for the more expensive solution, or perhaps just have to pay the 
difference.  We'll see.


	Thanks anyway!



[0] By "heinously evil", I mean that you get your IP address via 
DHCP, you telnet to their server, you then log into a web page, and 
the server checks your IP address to see if it belongs to your ISP 
and your account & password to see if they match.  If the IP address 
is wrong, you have to release that address and get another one, then 
start over.  If everything matches, you're connected for as long as 
you maintain that connection to their telnet server -- if *anything* 
causes that connection to be dropped, you're terminated and you have 
to log in again.

	Blech.  Double blech.  Blech say I!

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