PPPoE -> DHCP : how to switch ???

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:29:03PM +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> 
> Chuck, thanks the lesson, but you have completely lost me ! :-O
> Sounds very complicated...
> Thank god it works now, so I dont really need to dig further ;o)
> Basically I love DHCP, it all works automagically, didn't even need to
> enter a log-in or password. This is definitely what we need for a "user
> friendly" Linux experience. 
> To remove the pppoe link, I only did 'ppp stop' then removed and purged
> the 'ppp' package from Synaptic. 
> 
> Vince, now enjoying 1Mbps... and eying the 20Mbps service....only
> eying...it's twice the price ! :-/

Wow, that would be fast!  Is this DSL?  I didn't know that POTS lines
would handle that speed.  My telco (separate from my ISP) recently
increased my ADSL speed from 640k down/256k up to 1.6M down/ 896k up and
the improvement is quite welcome.  There was no increase in price and I
didn't have to reconfigure anything (I didn't even lose any
connections), although my setup is bridged/static ip, so there isn't
much to configure anyway.

Bob