Re: [nottingham] Admin Book and PPoA

From: Derek Huskisson (derek@huskisson.free-online.co.uk)
Date: Fri 09 Aug 2002 - 01:54:22 BST


On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 14:19, Jason wrote:
> anyone got any views, strong, weak or simply indifferent as to a book on
> Linux Administration.
> The box will be Debian. I have been swayed. Manily due to automatic update
> success and the positive notes.
>

If you're going for Debian and you don't mind the electronic book
version which you can't read in the bath, then look at some partially
complete manuals at:
                www.debian.org/doc/manuals/

There's one on System Admin and another on Networking.

Also you could do a:
                apt-get install linuxcookbook

for all three versions of debian (Stable, Testing and the other one), to
download a nice manual.
If you're not yet at a stage where you can do a 'apt-get' yet then do a
search for 'linuxcookbook' as it's available in HTML form and also , I
think, in gzipped form.

Thinks:

Try http://dsl.org/cookbook.
.
>
> BTW
> I have BT ADSL which is PPoA not PPoE anyone got any pointers as to how to
> do it with Linux.

  If you look at :--
                
        http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/speedtouchusb.html

Then it gives you guides to the two ways of setting up an Alcatel frog,
if thats what you have in mind.
  THe two ways are :
a) Patch your kernel to deal with pppoa,
or
b) have a user space programme which converts the ppoa into bog standard
ppp which a vanila kernel can understand. (recommended).

                                Derek Huskisson
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