[svlug] Pac Bell DSL and PPPoE

[Mo DeJong]

On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 kevin at ank.com wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> What in the world is Roaring Penguin and PPPoE?  Hmmm... I'm guessing 
> that the latter is PPP over Ethernet?  Really though, I didn't have to
> do anything special at all to connect my box to Pac Bell DSL; just 
> plugged the ethernet cable into the modem, and the other end into my
> box, configured the static IP, netmask, route tables, etc, and was done.
> 
> (You can ping my box 'balrog.ank.com'; I run my own DNS. In fact I never
> even had a PacBell login until they changed the news server to require it,
> since I don't use their mail, DNS, ftp, or web service.)

PacBell now only gives out static IP addresses if you pay them
extra $$. They are real jerks about it. They told me that
you could only buy static IP addresses in blocks of 3.
Perhaps they fear running out of static IPs or something,
it seems rather stupid to have to use PPPoe to just connect
to the network. No to mention the extra 10$ per month for
"internet service". Nobody at Pac Bell was able to explain
exactly what the extra 10$ "internet service" charge is for.
Me thinks it is just easier to sell the service as
"40 dollars a month" and then put extra changes in the fine
print.

Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc