[MrK]

The only way to connect to Mindspring DSL under OS X is via a pricey hardware solution . Not cool.


JM

[This message has been edited by MrK (edited 09-21-2000).]

[RDJL27]

I am geting Earthlink/Mindspring DSL in 3 days, it's on PPoE, so OS X incompatible with it, and as far as I'm aware there is no way at the moment to use it in conjunction with OS X.

There is an effort to move a version of Linux PPPoE to Mac OS X being discussed in another place here at MacNN forums. In the meantime, if you have $85, buy yourself a PPPoE-ready router (Linksys, Avante, MacSense, and others make them, $85 to $200.) It will handle the PPPoE part, and X will see only an ethernet connection. Plus, you can then connect multiple computers to one DSL connection. And there is a security benefit as well. The router serves as a firewall.

[MrK]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by matthew_cecil:

If you have $85, buy yourself a PPPoE-ready router (Linksys, Avante, MacSense, and others make them, $85 to $200.)

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Well, I have $85. So I bought one. But if you already have a software based firwall and are only hooking up one computer, you should not have to shell out $85-150 for a router. It isn't a giant surprise that there is a new version of the Mac OS cxoming out. If companies are going to require PPoE to connect to their networks - networks we are paying $50 a month to use- they should take the time to ensure that end users have flexibility in their system software choices, instead of being forced to wait months to upgrade.

Mindspring pulled this same thing when OS 9 came out. It shouldn't take 3 months after the release of the GM of a new system to get the interaction with Open Transport updated. This is the kind of thing you need to be thinking about and working on before... not after. It looks like the same mess this time aorund.

[DamnDJ]

Check out this link for OS X PPPoE software:
http://media.helioshealth.net:8080/

I haven't tested it, so I have no clue if it works.

DDJ

[MrK]

If you follow the link and instructions, as well as the follow ups on the OS X -General Discussions/PPPoE Recalled? page two you can get it set up and working. It isn't the easiest in the world, but it works. However, you have to re-enter the route ip each time you restart, so it isn't convinient. But it is better than nothing, and the people who built it worked hard and fast on it, so thank them if you use it.

[abnyc]

check this out people...in reference to pppoe:
Subject:
Fwd: Re: RE: pppoe client for mac os x public beta Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 09:44:32 -0700
From: Doug Wong <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Alex,

My Product Manager tell me that Mac OS X will have the PPPoE client built
in when they release the FCS version. It may not be in the beta, but will
be when they release.

Doug

>> > >
>> > >
>> > > >Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:20:55 -0400
>> > > >From: "Alex B." <[email protected]>
>> > > >Reply-To: [email protected]
>> > > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
>> > > >X-Accept-Language: en
>> > > >To: [email protected]
>> > > >Subject: pppoe client for mac os x public beta
>> > > >
>> > > >since Mac OS X is fully posix compliant . do you have any plans to
>> > > >develop a pppoe client for it?

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your mother

[abnyc]

check this out people...in reference to pppoe:
Subject:
Fwd: Re: RE: pppoe client for mac os x public beta Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 09:44:32 -0700
From: Doug Wong <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Alex,

My Product Manager tell me that Mac OS X will have the PPPoE client built
in when they release the FCS version. It may not be in the beta, but will
be when they release.

Doug

>> > >
>> > >
>> > > >Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:20:55 -0400
>> > > >From: "Alex B." <[email protected]>
>> > > >Reply-To: [email protected]
>> > > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC)
>> > > >X-Accept-Language: en
>> > > >To: [email protected]
>> > > >Subject: pppoe client for mac os x public beta
>> > > >
>> > > >since Mac OS X is fully posix compliant . do you have any plans to
>> > > >develop a pppoe client for it?

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your mother