Renan Fallen wrote:
> Hello people.
>
> I want to connect SGI machine to ADSL connection from local phone company.
> The service uses PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet).
>
> Question: is there any way to use PPPoE with IRIX?
>
> My machine has IRIX 6.5, it's an SGI Indigo and already has network card.
>
> Thank you, Renan "Fallen".

any cheap linksys dsl router will accomplish this as well as give basic
firewall protection.

cheers.

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>Renan Fallen wrote:
>> Hello people.
>>
>> I want to connect SGI machine to ADSL connection from local phone company.
>> The service uses PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet).
>>
>> Question: is there any way to use PPPoE with IRIX?
>>
>> My machine has IRIX 6.5, it's an SGI Indigo and already has network card.
>>
>> Thank you, Renan "Fallen".

>any cheap linksys dsl router will accomplish this as well as give basic
>firewall protection.

And I would think that this would be safer as well given that Irix 'out of
the box' is not fully secured.

IIRC a gentleman by the name of David Evans did have a PPPoE package for
Irix, I read it here on comp.sys.sgi.xxx.

Cheers
barefoot

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barefoot wrote:
> writes:
>
>>any cheap linksys dsl router will accomplish this as well as give basic
>>firewall protection.
>
>And I would think that this would be safer as well given that Irix 'out of
>the box' is not fully secured.
>

That's certainly the approach I would take.

>IIRC a gentleman by the name of David Evans did have a PPPoE package for
>Irix, I read it here on comp.sys.sgi.xxx.
>

Don't use my software for anything remotely important! While I made
it work a little bit, it's not reliable by any means. Info
here:

http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/pppoe_irix.html

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David Evans dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Research Associate, Ph.D. Candidate http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual