AT&T West → PPPoE

I heard that there are ways around it ?

Any one heard the same or different ?

As far as trying to bypass Pacbell DSL PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol Over Ethernet)? I think you have to use it in order to be able to login to their network which connects you to the Internet. If you can't login using PPPoE then you might not be able to access anything on Pacbell's DSL service. Of course, I could be completely ignorant of DSL and PPPoE, but I hoping someone can confirm this.
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As far as I know, since it's the authentication protocol, there is no true way to remove it entirely. Now, what you can do, is get a router that supports PPPoE, then the router handles all the authentication and reconnections should the line drop, but all that does is get it off the local machine.

Ryo
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Only way around it with PBI is to get enhanced service for an extra $20 month.

You can get out of having a PPPoE client in your computer by moving the PPPoE client to your modem or router..

The resion I ask is cause I read a article in a Mag. that said something about sidestepping PPPoE.
http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~normanb/

or doing a search for "RASPPoE"

cause here is what I wanted to do.

I have a gateway/router(netgear RT314) and wanted to setup my comps so that the computers had Static IP's and the only thing that the changed was the IP on the router...

I know thats a different group/forum but I found that I get better answers with more info then with too little...

I thought that PPPoE changed your IP every time ?

thanks

It only changes it everytime you log off.
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Cool so I guess that means I can do the above in terms of setting the static Ips ect...

thanks

I see what you are getting at. If the router supports NAT then you're all set. All internal LAN PC's will have a static non-routable IP (192.168.x.x) and the only IP that will change is the Router IP on the WAN side (209.168.x.x for example). All the inside computers will see it as static on the LAN side (as the gateway at 10.0.0.x, for example). I'm not sure of all the particular's of setting up a connection like this, as I have never done it--just peripherally familiar with the concepts.

You might try asking this question in the networking forum. Those guys would have a better handle on it.

Now, if what you mean by Static IP's is that each computer on the LAN would have a static IP visible from the internet (WAN), then no, you can't do that without having Static IP's issued from your ISP.

Ryo
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"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
-Stephen Hawking