Qwest PPPoA passing with PPPoE - Can not get an address

[Dale Farnsworth]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:04:19PM -0700, Eric Shubes wrote:
> Dale Farnsworth wrote:
[snip]
> > I tried to do this about 18 months ago when I got qwest dsl, and gave
> > up.  If you solved it, please share the solution with us (or at least
> > with me. :))
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Dale
> 
> I have an actiontec DSL model/router that I've configured in bridging mode
> with an IPCop box behind it that handles the PPPoE login. I found
> instructions on the internet somewhere (probably the IPCop site). I haven't
> tried doing PPPoE from native linux though. FWIW (probably not much).

Thanks Eric.  I remembered that my ISP only supports PPPoA, not PPPoE.
I don't think that's usable with Actiontec in bridging mode.

Not a major deal.  Just would be nice to do all my routing in the
wrt54gs.

-Dale