John,
I will tell you same as I was told by GTA. GNATBox (Pro or Lite) does not
currently support PPPoE. There are future plans (there is not a release
date) to support PPPoE. I think the current problem is how do you squeeze
ten pounds of shit into a five pound bag (oh those "floppy" blues). Even if
you get all the settings in place I believe it will still not work.
What I am using in the mean time is a Linksys product...
http://www.linksys.com/scripts/features.asp?part=BEFSR41
The PPPoE code is in beta but it seems to be working well with both DHCP and
PPPoE. But it does not have or have immediate future plans for VPN.
I Need VPN, DHCP, DNS, AND PPPoE all in one cheap box, whoever builds it
will be my GOD!
Brian Murtari
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>From reading the list I see that PPPoE isn't supported on GB Lite.
I have a residential DSL account with Bell Atlantic that uses WinPoET (I
believe a flavor of PPPoE) and dynamic addressing. Static addressing is
not yet available. I'm looking for a workaround that will let me use GB
Lite.
I tried connecting to the service w/o the firewall in place, noteing the
IP address, adding it to GB Lite and quickly 'sliding' the firewall into
the circuit. It didn't work but at least one reason is without DHCP set,
GB needs the default route (which I don't know). If I can get the
address of the downstream router from Bell Atlantic and set it as the
default route, will my scheme work? (provided I leave the connection up)
Is there a simpler work around for this situation? I would guess that
this will become a common problem (at least in Bell Atlantic terratory)
as more consumers subscribe to DSL.
Thanks for any help or suggections.......
John V.
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