router/firewall hardware advice

[Alex Maynard]

Sorry to revert to an old post -- justed wanted to say thank you and that
my router problem is resolved now. Lennart's post below, that PPPoE should
be used with a fixed IP provider cleared up a lot of confusion for me. My provider also
had me lower the MTU and log in as test at test prior to actually logging in,
which for reasons I don't entirely understand, seemed to do the trick.

Alex

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:59:46PM -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
> > Thanks very much to everyone who wrote back with advice and links!!
> >
> > Do you know if I lose a lot flexibility/customizability if I use syslink
> > hub as opposed to linux based CD or pc router?
> >
> > On my SMC, it seemed to force a choice between fixed IP and pppoe.  On the
> > fixed IP you could input the ip address, but not the password info. On the
> > pppoe option you could input password info, but no IP info. My provider
> > needs both, so I couldn't connect with fixed IP. It sounds like this
> > won't be a problem with linksys? Can anyone confirm that? (I'd like to use
> > a linux based CD or PC, but ran into objections at home when I
> > brought up the idea of another computer running full time ("too noisy").)
>
> Your provider should not require an ip when using PPPoE even if you ahve
> a static IP.  It should simple send you the static ip every time you
> connect.  At least istop.com does as one would expect.  You either have
> a static IP if using a plain bridged ethernet interface (not pppoe) like
> high end dsl or cablemodem, or you use PPPoE which takes care of all the
> settings (similar to DHCP actually).  Your ISP happens to know that your
> static IP should be the IP sent to you when you connect with PPPoE
> unless the provider is defective.
>
> Lennart Sorensen
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