I plan on giving them the boot soon enough. However for roght now I have 9
other users who are depending on the line. One solution that the NT head
downstairs suggested was win98 running winproxy. I would rather not do that.

verizon is definitely on my shit list

"David A. Gatwood" wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Salvatore Mancini wrote:
>
> > I want to reconfigure my firewall to work with pppoe. Verizon took my
> > static ip away. How do I go about this? Any help would be
> > appreciated.....
>
> When I saw that headline, I just about fell over laughing.  I've been
> Verizoned, too.  They lost cell service for a large part of Santa Cruz
> county, and it has been down since last Friday.  I was very tempted to
> take advantage of that thirty day Radio Shack return policy and dumping
> this thing this morning (30 days ends today), but Cellular One would
> charge me roaming over the hill where I work.  Verizon is on my list of
> companies that I only put up with because I have no choice, and wouldn't
> recommend to my worst enemy.
>
> As you can imagine, my advice to you is "Run.  Run... as fast as you can."
> Not saying that it can't be done, because I'm pretty sure pppoe is
> possible under NetBSD.  I just question whether a company that jerks their
> customers around by forcing people to change to pppoe is worth putting up
> with.  I know I wouldn't.  There are just too many competing ISPs that
> _do_ offer static IPs at similar prices, at least in my area.
>
> I say, give them the boot, and be sure to tell them why.  If enough people
> leave their service because of pppoe, their policy guys will eventually
> figure out that it's evil and they'll stop.  :-)
>
> Later,
> David
>
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