[ale] Getting BSFA to work with Linux using PPPoA?

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James Kinney)]

If you have the external Speedtouch Home box, it talk to your system
through basic ethernet. Set up that ethx connection to connect with DHCP
and you're good to go. It that doesn't work, there is a way to get the
speedtouch home box to serve dhcp to you and have it handle the connection
negotiation. Thet will require setting your eth card to use an IP in a
specific range, and then you can browse to the IP of the modem and
configure it. The details are a bit fuzzy, but available from the Alcatel
manual (online pdf as well).

The simple dhcp connections works if your MAC address is registered. Since
you've been using pppoe, it probably isn't registered with bellsouth.

I think the modem can handle pppoe as well.

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Ryan Bradford Neily wrote:

>
> Can anyone tell me how to get Bellsouth Fastaccess to work with Redhat 7.0
> on a PPPoA connection?  I am currently using PPPoE (Roaring Pengiun) and
> it works great, however, I would like to use PPPoA to see if I get a
> little better performance.
>
> My current setup is Roaring Pengiun PPPoE, and a Alcatel 1000.  I would
> like to go to PPPoA, and the Alcatel 1000. Is this as simple as starting
> the PPTP client under linux?  I have seen lots of HOW-TO's on configing
> the USB modem, but nothing on the Speedtouch Home, or the Alcatel 1000
> (These are almost the same modem, just the STH is a little newer!)
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Ryan Bradford Neily                              Phone: 770-565-9017
> Georgia Southern University
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