verizon.net does use pppoe, I know I'm still failing to connect to their service. Also, set your mtu to 1492 not 1500 and keep it there or verizon.net will break down your link in about a month and charge to rebuild it. Anything over 1492 may be more than you're entitled to have in band width. I wouldn't even sign up with verizon.net until I have verified all my equipment works on my end including ethernet card and for that reason I suggest you ask for the test account password and if you can't get linux up and running with verizon.net call them up and get an r.m.a. letter and return all equipment and terminate your dsl account with them. One of verizon.net's problems is they don't support linux and it took them time to research their own windows software just to find out about that mtu setting for me. The assumption is everybody uses windows so we don't need to know any of the settings since windows will create their account for them and log them in for the first time. It took verizon.net a month to send me my account login information because I use linux.
