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[agtiger@xxxxxxxxxxx (Argentium G. Tiger)]

>...(I plan on
>building a two NIC firewall box to take care of security.)  I'm not sure if
>I need the pppoe or DHCP client.

Most likely it'll be DHCP.  I helped Jon Pennington set up the SuSEfirewall
package on a machine to do just what you're going to do, and we used
DHCLIENT on eth0 which hooked to the DSL modem via a cat-5 crossover
cable, and DHCPD on eth1 which then hooked to a hub via a straight cat-5
cable.  Worked like a champ.  :-)

If in doubt, configure what will be your firewall first to be a command
line workstation with DHCLIENT linked to eth0, and that hooked to the
DSL modem via a cat-5 crossover cable.  If you can connect up to the
outside world, the rest is just configuration.

Good luck!  I hope it pans out the way you want.

Argentium


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