[CALUG] modems for Linux

[Kelly Price]

On 8/18/06, Abraham Bloom <abrahambloom at verizon.net> wrote:
>         I got my FIOS a while ago and I have a different story to tell.
>
>         I had comcast cable connected to a linux firewall eth0 with the eth1
> card connected to my internal hub.  Worked great with dhcp from comcast.
>
>         Now with FIOS - you have PPPOE.   I get the 15 up and 2 down, real
> sweet.  The router that they provide is 'special', I tried to replace
> it and my firewall with numerous different router/firewall
> appliances.  Bottom line, none of them gave me the speed of the silly
> DLimk.  Reason is the, according to verizon tech support, the DLink
> that they supply (nothing off the shelf)  has special code burned
> into it that gives it that speed.    So I hook the fios to the
> DLink,  my firewall eth0  to the DLink and the eth1 to the multiport
> hub.  Everything works well and good speed.
>
>         Hope this helps.  If anyone knows anything different I am open to
> trying something else.
>

Strange.  Verizon's switching over to DHCP.  I have a Linksys router
connected to it right now going DHCP and it's getting great speeds
up/down.

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Kelly "STrRedWolf" Price
http://strredwolf.furrynet.com