DSL: NetworkManager vs pppoeconf

[Eberhard Roloff]

Brian McKee wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 18:11 +0200, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Jared Greenwald wrote:
>>> I just noticed that there is a tab under NetworkManager's "edit
>>> interfaces" dialog that allows for setup of a DSL connection.  I also
>>> noticed that if I configure an interface under pppoeconf, it no longer
>>> shows up under network manager.  So, the question is, what is the
>>> preferred method of configuring DSL?  Also, what is the field called
>>> "Service" used for?
>> imho the preferred method of configuring DSL is using a router. Thus you 
>> will not be any longer connected directly to the Internet. Instead you 
>> are using a private network without any need for a "special DSL 
>> Configuration"
>>
>> Imho you really should not expose a PC directly to the Interent, when 
>> you can do without it. And this also applies to Linux.;-)
> 
> And what OS do you suppose is running on that Router? :-)

As I never have seen a router working with Windows, I must assume that 
most routers will use linux. The GPL copy that you get with most routers 
supports this assumption. ;-))

Anyway, you will probably not want to compare the security of a single 
task router to a multi-anything desktop.


regards
Eberhard