[H-GEN] ADSL and Linux.

[John Ryland]

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> I am currently looking in to ADSL in Australia.

It's pretty good.

> Has anyone had experience with ADSL and Linux ? What hardware ??

Yep.
Telstra provide the ADSL modem, you connect it up to your computer through an 
ethernet cable. A 486 is probably sufficient as a firewall computer which 
manages the connection. The software/protocol used is stock standard PPP over 
ethernet, if you find the PPPoE (I think) package, it should compile and run 
without problems. It's quite easy to setup. IIRC the web site to go to for 
the package is called "roaring penguin", but I can't remember the URL. Just 
google it.

Regards
John

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