THOMSON SpeedTouchTM706 User Manual page 40

Chapter 3
Internet Connectivity Dial-In Clients
Embedded PPP dial-in
Broadband host PPPoE
dial-in clients
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The SpeedTouch™'s embedded PPP dial-in client allows you to establish an Internet
clients 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
Windows XP
you can use the Windows XP Internet Gateway Device Control Client.
See "3.2 Internet Gateway Device Control Agent" on page 35
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 ...
Windows XP
Mac OS X
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.
to proceed.
you can use ...
the Windows XP broadband dial-in client
a Mac OS X broadband dial-in client
a broadband PPPoE dial-in client provided by
you Service Provider
to proceed.
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