I just got DSL with getnet.net as my ISP (they're the one that just
bought Inficad). I've used them for dialup since Inficad ditched
their dialup accounts at the start of the year and I've been
reasonably happy with them. I have a dynamic IP, although it has yet
to change in the week and a half that I've had the DSL. They said you
can get a static IP as well, although I assume it's extra money. I'm
using a Cisco 678, which does PPP on the other end and NAT for the
local network. The Linux setup was basic LAN; you just have to tell
the router what IP address you're using.
-Mike
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:04:57PM -0700, Tom Snell wrote:
> Yes, I've had Qwest DSL for a couple years with my old ISP, Inficad (whom
> I'd used since they started with dial-up). IP address is static, and they
> still use bridging mode (they'd intimated a year or so ago that they were
> going to go PPP/DHCP, but it's never happened). Have the Cisco 675, still
> on CAP. No PPOE necessary....I just bridge it through to a Linksys
> single-port broadband router, where the NAT is configured, to a 5-port
> switch (this was the quick, dirty, cheap way to go....didn't have the
> parts/cash to set up a Linux router box). The network config on the Linux
> workstation is pretty much vanilla LAN.
>
> Inficad's level one techs aren't always astute as to the config of their own
> Redback router, but the one or two guys there that you would consider
> 'sysadmins' will listen if you back up your assumptions with some facts. In
> fact, in the nearly six years I've been with Inficad, I've probably had to
> call them three times....not a bad record for any ISP. I honestly can't
> remember, up until this past week, the last time they've ever gone down
> (they run FreeBSD webservers, IIRC). From their website, though, it appears
> they've just been sold, and I had some downtime (short-term) twice this
> week. I just hope they don't go the way of the old Primenet, which was a
> cool little ISP back in '94-'95, but went downhill after GlobalCenter bought
> them out.....
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Guy
> Chouinard Jr
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 5:10 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Linux on Qwest DSL with own ISP
>
>
> Hi
>
> I am wondering if there are any people in the group using
> Qwest DSL with their own ISP. I called Qwest tech support
> and they were a bit helpful but for the most part clueless.
>
> If you are running Linux on Qwest DSL with your own ISP as
> opposed to Qwest.net I need to know:
>
> Do you have a static or dynamic IP ?
>
> If you have dynamic are you using Roaring Penquin as a pppoe client ?
> If static do you just config eth0 with your static ?
>
> Is Qwest using CAP or DMT encoding ? I know CAP is being phased out in
> most places.Are you using a CISCO 675 or 678 ?
>
> I live in an apt complex and have a security system that utilizes the
> phone
> if someone were to break in so I may have to filter the signal or get a
> "home
> run" installed from the dmark to my apt, but that's a sync issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Guy
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