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Re: [PLUG] Ethernet/DSL setup question
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> Verizon (for one) kills your connection from their end occasionally. And
> no, not from DHCP leases expiring; the log actually states something
> like "connection disconnected by remote peer". The RP client
> automatically reconnects you. Or is supposed to. Kind of like "re-dial
> on disconnect". You usually get the same IP back, altho not always.
>
> And staying online constantly is - I believe - against Verizon's TOS.
> DSL doesn't mean full-time connection, as far as Verizon is concerned.
>
> As I've always said, Verizon sucks. Badly.
I'm not defending Verizon, I'm just curious as to pppoe. It doesn't seem
as evil, to me, as many make it out to be. But then again, I also haven't
had the need to use it. *shrug*
-mct
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