[geeks] News server access

Brian Hechinger geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Aug 13 12:11:53 CDT 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 12:32:13PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> 
> Well I'll be.  Every PPPOE setup that I've seen featured ethernet between
> the host and the modem, so I assumed that's what the E stood
> for.  

it does stand for ethernet.  i think those USB ones are just USB attached
ethernet instead of have a "real" ethernet port.  keep in mind i have not
researched this claim, but it's what makes sense to me.

-brian



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