[conspire] Att Yahoo Dsl

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:20:53 -0700, john andrews wrote:

> Can the Dsl service from Att Yahoo work with Linux? I would have to use 
> it without the Yahoo software which normally comes with it. Could I have 
> it on 2 different computers? An imac os 9.1 which would have to run the 
> Yahoo software and also on a Kanotix. Would the connection using the 
> same userid and password and be allowed on 2 different machines?

The Yahoo software they use is all web-based AFAIK, and therefore,
OS-independent. They only give you one IP address for the basic package,
so to share the connection among two machines you would have to do one of
the following:
1) Hack the black box they send you to make it provide NAT.
2) Get a router.
3) Multihome one of your machines and use iptables to forward packets.
In case you care, all their dynamic-IP connections use PPPoE.

In contrast, DSLExtreme's basic package is four fewer pennies per month
before tax, providing up to five IP addresses upon request for the same
price, with no PPPoE, ever. Tech support for both prefer to deal with
Windows, but in the case of DSLExtreme, that's only when you get to Tier 2.
Their Tier 1 doesn't care what you run.