Your router should have configuration parameters built into it for PPPoE,
etc.

You use your PC to configure the router using its built in HTTP server.

The router then connects to the modem via its WAN port. The modem doesn't
know that it is a router rather than a PC.

All your machines (Win and Linux) connect to the routers LAN port(s). The
router runs a DHCP server to give your inside machines IP addresses and NAT
to make everything look like it is coming from the router itself.

hth

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems

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