Broadband support in Mandrake or Redhat

[Haggis]

Hi

I had Mandrake 8 and got ADSL broadband internet. I read that I would not be able to use this under Linux, so I went back to my windows system. Has Mandrake 9 or Red hat 8 support the ADSL devices?

[trickster]

Hi,

DSL uses a protocol called PPPoE, Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet, similar in some cases to dial-up (PPP). There is some support for it under Linux.
Red Hat supports it out of the box. However, I found it, in version 7.3, a bit quirky. (It would stop working sometimes for me. I dunno if this was just for me.) I hear that Mandrake 9 has support for it too. I have DSL and, before getting a smal switch/router to do the dial-in for me, I used a third party software: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/

Also, the 2.4.X kernel (since version 2.4.9 I believe) supports kernel-mode.

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[pbharris]

hello,
i have asdl and sdsl and had no issues with either for over a year. it does use DHCP to set up my NIC.