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Yeah, they guard that info like it's gold.  I just told them when they 
got there that I was installing a Linux box.  The guy asked me if it 
could do pppoe.  They wouldn't touch it, but I wouldn't let them go 
until I got my laptop to connect first.

> Another ALEr late last spring or early this summer, kindly provided a link
> to the manufacturer's configuration manual for BS' most commonly supplied
> modem. Fairly straight-forward browser-based configuration, IIRC. (It has a
> decent set of router and firewall functions, but my paranoid heart suspects
> BS can possibly reconfigure it from upstream.) 

Modem doesnt' apply in my case, nothing but a jack that ethernet is 
connected to.

> 
> The thread primarily addressed using a consumer firewall/router behind the
> BS modem and gave helpful suggestions in that regard. Search the mail list
> or write me if you can't turn it up.

That's what I set up my mother-in-law with as well.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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