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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Howdy, On 2006年7月25日, Daniel.G.Roberts@sanofi-aventis.com wrote: > What is PPOE or PPPOE There's some info on PPPOE (PPP over Ethernet) here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pppoe It's a protocol that runs on top of TCP/IP, that, according to the following document, has a 0.53% overhead: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/11721 PPPOE is commonly used on DSL. > I gather that in my area of greater Trenton NJ PPPOE is used.. > Is there an impact on Linux somehow? Well, if you use their supplied router, there's no impact on Linux whatsoever, aside from the 0.53% overhead :-) If you want to configure a Linux-based router yourself rather than using theirs, it means you can't just grab an IP using DHCP, you have to setup PPPOE. Which works fine, it's simply an extra step :-) -Eric - -- Eric Andreychek | Lucy: "What happens if you practice the Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs | piano for 20 years and then end up not eric@openthought.net | being rich and famous?" http://openthought.net | Schroeder: "The joy is in the playing." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFExigWR5UKaDAjAG4RAmi+AJ9vUBPT62VsgFvt9hVhLHQ8f/auQgCY4X1/ OJc+R85Vf7MewIzvtA4GMg== =UjKG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug