On February 13, 2001 10:24 am, Christian Klippel wrote: Hi ,
we never had dhcp for the adsl. at the first time we got an *STATIC* ip adress, so routing was very easy (linuxrouter on one floppy-disk on a 386 machine, no hd, graphics etc. only two NIC's) after that we also got pppoe,
Take a look at at coyote. I think it needs at least a 486dx but other then that it can handle everything else you mentioned.
but setting up the router was at the first time impossible, it seemed that the telekom locked out this in some way. now it works, but we often have problems with connections leaved open after the accessing machine is already turned off. the router clearly disconnects, as seen in the logs,
Which PPPoE package ar e you using? From my expierence most of the problems are terrible PPPoE packages. That's why the windows people are having so much trouble-)) Nick