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Welcome to the tutorial guide. The guide will provide you with guidance and instructions regarding usage of DSL.

DSL (PPPoE)
These instructions are relevant to you only if your PC itself is supposed to manage the connection to your ISP. You do not need to do anything but define a correct default gateway if you are using a separate router of some sort to do the grunt work.

Please note that before you can use your DSL online connection, you will have to physically install the network card that is supposed to be connected to the DSL-Modem into your computer. After adding your newly installed network card to the modules.conf/modprobe.conf or the MODULES array, you should install the rp-pppoe package and run the pppoe-setup script to configure your connection. After you have entered all the data, you can connect and disconnect your line with
# /etc/rc.d/adsl start
and
# /etc/rc.d/adsl stop
respectively. The setup usually is rather easy and straightforward, but feel free to read the manpages for hints. If you want to automatically ‘dial in’ at boot, add adsl to your DAEMONS array, and put a ! before the network entry, since the network is handled by adsl now.

If you followed the instructions and guidance as provided in this tutorial guide then you would have learnt about DSL.