Hi There,

Im a new comer to the linux world and would like assistance
in setting up a linux box to do PPPOE over an ADSL link that
has an ADSL Modem (Zyxel Prestige) which is configured in
Brifge mode.
Could someone kindly let me know how to setup PPPOE on
a stable and good version of linux. Please do let me know
waht linux to use.

The other issue is that My ISP has provided me with a block
of 8 public IP's that I would like to configure on the PPPOE
interface of the linux box and three other devices on my current
LAN. Could you let me know how I could go about this PLEASE.

All your assistance will be highly appreciated

Redice

I do not know much about Linux.

I have SuSe 9.3. on a laptop.

Earlier I had a ADSL modem and then a HomePNa model. For both of them I configured suse to have a DSL modem (YAST DSL modem function). As a result suse did the pppoe. All was quite straightforward.

Now I have Zyxel prestige 660HW-61 ADSL gateway + wireless access point.

For Zyxel I only configured in Suse the ethernet card and the wireless card and let Zyxel take care of the pppoe conversion. (Actually it seems to have chosen some other protocal :-?

Thanks Alot mate!
Not quite what im looking for.

all distributions will let you connect to the internet using pppoe. There is a program (ppoeconf) which is easy to use. Some linux distributions (LIke Mepis, for example or Suse) have a gui for this program. Not that you need a gui. You can start this program at a terminal window. All you have to do is give the program your username and password (as provided by your ISP). The program does the rest.

Before you run pppoeconf, however, you have to activate your network adapter. All you have to do is give it a "dummy" IP address. Giving the adapter a dummy static address activates it. Your ISP will dynamically provide DNS servers, gateway addresses, etc., but for some reason, you have to configure the network card to start with. For example you can use the static IP addess (192.168.22.1). Some distros also ask for a subnet mask (255.255.255.0)

As you can tell, I am not a geek or otherwise knowledgable computer guy. But I have the same setup you do and I got connected with three different distributions. Suse, Mepis, and Ubuntu. Out of the box the best distro I used was Mepis. Hardly anything to do. Ubuntu is nice but need a lot of tweaking for mutimedia to work.

Sorry but disregard the immediately preceding two paragraphs. I answered before I read your second paragraph (about your network). I now have a network too, but the router takes care of ppoe. The router has DHCP so I don't have to worry about the static IP's . I just configure the network cards to "Get everything from DHCP (the router) . The router has a program built in to configure everything. The program is accesssible from any web browser. The only problem is that the Dsl modem only has an X-type port. So I had to get a crossover cable to connect it to the router.