[H-GEN] Getting ADSL going under Debian

[David Findlay]

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On Wednesday 21 March 2001 09:30, you wrote:
> Um, the pppoe that comes with debian stable is rp-pppoe :)

Um, well why is it only version 1.0-2 and doesn't have adsl-setup, 
adsl-start,etc? Anyway I installed version 2.8.2 from sources.

> Mar 20 15:53:55 set pppd[24573]: Connect time 24990.4 minutes.
>
> That's 2 minutes 24 seconds shy of 2 weeks, 3 days and 7 hours.

Oh well that's good. I will still check to see if it does stop, but hopefully 
it doesn't.

> In anycase, the rp-pppoe has a heartbeat and timeout monitor that works
> quite well. I've found with a little tweaking, you can have a minimally
> disrupted net session even with turning the modem off and on again.

Cool. When I was talking to the guy who I installed it for, he said it seems 
to run faster with downloads now that it is running on linux. It used to run 
off Windows 2000 pro. I said that I can't see why I would, but it may be 
because of lower overhead. Is this correct? It is on the 1.5 Mb service. 
Thanks,

David

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