[geeks] Netgear RT14 and Verizon

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

I was out on a mission yesterday, so you may have this running by now,
but...
Some DSL accounts I have played with want to know your MAC address, or else
they won't ship you an IP address.

Just a hint.

~ -----Original Message-----
~ From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
~ Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 10:55 PM
~ To: geeks at sunhelp.org
~ Subject: Re: [geeks] Netgear RT14 and Verizon
~ 
~ 
~ On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 10:48:42PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
~ > OK, I attached the NetGear rt314 that I bought on the 
~ list's advice, and
~ > followed the wizard, left everything as default, except I 
~ changed the 
~ > encapsulation to PPPoE, and of course, I entered my 
~ username and password.
~ 
~ Ewww. PPPoE.  I'm straight DHCP.
~ 
~ > So, obviously something is configured wrong, but Verizon 
~ gave me absolutely
~ > no configuration information, WinPoet has no settings to 
~ check (other than
~ > username and password), and verizon says that such devices 
~ (in addition to
~ > software NATs) are officially unsupported.  I'm interested 
~ in hearing advice
~ > from people who used this device with other PPPoE services, 
~ and people who 
~ > used other devices with Verizon.
~ 
~ http://www.dslreports.com/forum/equip,9 may help.
~ 
~ Bill
~ 
~ -- 
~ Bill Bradford
~ mrbill at mrbill.net
~ Austin, TX
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