Re: [nottingham] Admin Book and PPoA

From: Paul Sladen (notlug@paul.sladen.org)
Date: Thu 08 Aug 2002 - 17:01:47 BST


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Jason wrote:

> anyone got any views, strong, weak or simply indifferent as to a book on
> Linux Administration.

Sadly not, with the wealth of information available in man-pages and on the
Interweb I haven't really had course to find a book on Unix. I suspect JCM
or his LinuxUser Magazine have probably reviewed lots of books over time and
may have a recommendation.

> The box will be Debian. I have been swayed.

Good choice. Your task now is to get hold of a Debian T-Shirt and start
converting all the other people! :-)

> I have BT ADSL which is PPoA not PPoE anyone got any pointers as to how to
> do it with Linux.

Nick Luckcuck (who has turned up to the odd NotLUG meet) wrote a howto after
his experience of setting up his speedtouch with PPPoA (PPP over ATM):

  http://nick.luckcuck.org.uk/docs/linux-bt-adsl-probably-not-HOWTO.html

Though as he says,

  "This is really old, so I would go to
  <http://speedtouch.sourceforge.net/>
  and find a more up to date one."

For instance, proper drivers are now in the kernel IIRC.

        -Paul

-- 
Nottingham, GB

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