how to setup PPPoE.

[jackuto]

anybody can guide me how to setup PPPoE in fc3? thanks.

[imdeemvp]

You meant your dsl connection? if so read here. (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=19352)

[gr8dude]

I have a PPPoE-related question, and I don't feel comfortale making a new topic for it.

Here is the situation: everything works fine, the internet is up and everybody is happy. My provider uses PPPoE, and there are several servers in the LAN that keep this service up. One of them is called LSRV1 and the other LSRV2. These different servers have a slightly different configuration, and one of them is a bit faster. PPPoE clients usually offer you the ability to choose the "Service Name", which in my case is either LSRV1 or LSRV2; if the Service Name is not given, then the computer will connect to the server which replies faster.

The problem is that I always get a faster reply from the slower one, therefore I get a slow connection.

Now here are some additional facts:
In Windows I had the same thing, and indicating the name of the service manually simply made the connection dead . Then, after conducting a research, I discovered that if I wrote LSRV1\ instead of LSRV1 ([i]assuming that LSRV1 is the one that gives more bandwidth; i.e. the server I _want_ to connect thru) - it worked!

In Linux the situation is similar, but different, if I use LSRV1 as a service name - it cannot connect. If I use LSRV1\ - it doesn't connect either.

The people at the provider tell me that the names of the servers are LSRV1 and LSRV2. Therefore I assume that the backslash is just the way Windows treats PPPoE servers.

My conclusion is that Linux has a similar 'tradition', but instead of backslashes, it uses another character.


My question: does anyone know which service name has to be used if its actual name is "LSRV1"?