* Steve (ssivier1@attbi.com) [021110 08:19]: ->On Saturday 09 November 2002 21:52, Ole Kofoed Hansen wrote: ->> On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Forrest Halford wrote: ->> > I just got attbi installed and want to make suse linux work. ->> > Can anyone help? -> ->I have a cable modem through attbi and it pretty much just works. However, ->I've got a router (SMC7004) between the cable modem and my computer(s). The ->only thing I've had to do is to set the host name on the router to the value ->that AT&T provides (something like A000000-A, where A represents some letter ->and 0 represents some digit). That and set all my computers to using DHCP. I ->definitely recommend getting a router with a good hardware firewall because ->someone (or some people) keeps trying to break into my network (from ip ->addresses like 12.235.??.?? mostly). -> Steve, FYI ..AT&T regularly use to scan for machines running services such as http, smtp..etc. I'll bet dollars to donuts they still do this. Your probably seeing a lot of scanning from AT&T's local network. Nice huh? :) Regards, -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.