[SunRescue] Re: Help!

Devin L. Ganger rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Apr 20 16:34:59 CDT 2001


On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 09:26:07PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
 
> Sebastian Marius Kirsch <skirsch at moebius.inka.de> wrote:
 
> > In my experience, for home users the problem is not routing per se, but
> > the PPPoE protocol some of us unfortunate DSL subscribers are stuck
> > with.
 
> WHY!  Doesn't your DSL router handle all the necessary conversions from
> ethernet to whatever hell-spawned deviancy the telco uses?

A lot of ISPs use PPPoE to gain control over folks who like to steal IP
addresses that aren't theirs, or to implement metered access.

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb'
for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g' < $f ; done



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