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Modem routers like the old Multitechs supported PPOE, so this was not a show stopper.

You can probably imagine that sharing a dial up line truly could be abominable. On the other hand, the Internet was barely out of text mode at this point - graphics were limited and deliberately kept small when used at all, so it isn't quite as horrible as it sounds.

From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: PPP server  over ethernet
Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 09:33:08 -0700
Message-ID: <7kedis8reckg2tpsikn7k5kuigi9fo93cr@4ax.com> 

On Fri, 19 May 2000 13:36:42 GMT, "Vincenzo" <vincespi@iol.it> wrote:

>Is  possible to activate it on openserver 5.0.x ?
>how?
>vincenzo spinelli

I believe you are referring to PPPoE or PPP over Ethernet, also known as
RFC2516:
        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2516.txt
        http://www.whatis.com/pppoe.htm
It's primary purpose is to turn what would normally be a full time
connection into a hideous dialup like abomination so that the ISP can pile
on more subscribers per backhaul.

SCO OSR5 does not support PPPoE at this time, nor do I know any way to
conventiently graft PPPoE onto the IP stack.  Considering that there is also
not DHCP client for OSR5, I would not wait for SCO to supply one.

Roaring Penguin:
        http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe.html
has created a client side PPPoE dialer for Linux, that does not involve any
kernel code.  It could be used for the basis of an SCO OSR5 incantation.


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