RCA SpeedTouchTM706 - Manual (Page 40)

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Chapter 3
Internet Connectivity Dial-In Clients
Embedded PPP dial-in
clients
The SpeedTouch™’s embedded PPP dial-in client allows you to establish an Internet
connection for computers residing on your local network, using only one computer
of the network to control the client.
If this computer runs:
Any Operating System
you can always use the SpeedTouch™ Web pages.
See
“3.1 SpeedTouch™ Web Pages” on page 33 to proceed.
Windows XP
you can use the Windows XP Internet Gateway Device Control Client.
See
“3.2 Internet Gateway Device Control Agent” on page 35 to proceed.
Broadband host PPPoE
dial-in clients
You can also connect to the Internet using a Broadband PPPoE dial-in application.
The PPP over Ethernet connection scenario provides PPP-like dial-in behaviour over
the virtual Ethernet segment.
To be able to use a broadband dial-in application on your computer for connecting
to the Internet, the SpeedTouch™ needs to be configured for Bridged Ethernet or
Routed PPPoE (with PPPoE relay) via the SpeedTouch™ Home Install Wizard on the
Setup CD or the embedded Easy Setup. .
If your computer runs ... you can use ...
Windows XP the Windows XP broadband dial-in client
Mac OS X a Mac OS X broadband dial-in client
a broadband PPPoE dial-in client provided by
you Service Provider
Upon availability of OS-specific PPPoE dial-in client applications, the latter
method is Operating System independent.
For PPPoE session connectivity from a Mac OS 8.6/9.x, a Windows 95/
98(SE)/ME/2000 or a Linux system, a host PPPoE dial-in application is
mandatory.