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Date:	Wed, 15 Jun 2005 13:26:13 PDT7
From:	sshapiro@ucsd.edu (Sandy Shapiro)
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Connecting to SBC/yahoo DSL with OS/2-eCS

The router software (firmware?), which is accessed from my web browser,
has a check mark for PPoE, and one for DHCP.

I am using OS/2 Warp 4 with SBC Yahoo. I have used Linksys, SMC and D-Link
routers, and they all work the same.

Sandy

In <20050615200942.68582.qmail@web81407.mail.yahoo.com>, on 06/15/05
at 01:09 PM, J R FOX said:

>--- Sandy Shapiro wrote:

>> If you have a router connected to your DSL modem, as
>> Harry suggests, than
>> you only need to use your browser, Mozilla or
>> Netscape for example, to
>> tell the router how to connect to Yahoo (username
>> and password). From then
>> on you are always connected. No Windows needed.

>I could be wrong about this (and you'd need to prove
>that to me . . . ), but from every indication I've
>been able to come up with, using the current SBC |
>Yahoo DSL service with OS/2 or eCS *requires* a FIXED
>IP. A DSL router alone ain't gonna do it, *unless*
>you have the fixed IP. (I had an older DSL router,
>which had to be re-programmed -- another issue.)
>Otherwise, you will need PPOE, and I think
>specifically some form of PPOE that is compatible with
>their service: possibly proprietary, and almost
>certainly WIN-based.

>Jordan

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