On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:18, John B wrote:
Hey all,
I really need to cut back on the spending, so unfortunately have to share a dial-up access. I've got one PC with SuSE 9.2, and the other (in another room) that runs W98. I bought a dial-up modem that has a built in router and 2 NIC's, one card for each system. My question(s):
Once I put the NIC's in the systems and hook to the router, what kind of thing(s) do I need to do on the SuSE box? I want to use my dial-up access number and password, so that shouldn't be hard to reconfigure on the windows box, but I'm not sure what to do once I have each PC hooked up to the router.
I had a similar device (a Duxbury DSL/Cable router with dial-on-demand) and it worked by configuring it via a web interface (browse to http://192.168.168.1) and setup your dialup parameters (such as account name, account password, ISP name) in the router. It also had a DHCP server. One this was done, internet access was transparent as all the necessary parameters on the SuSe box are downloaded via the DHCP server - just set the ethernet device on SuSE to use DHCP- likewise for W98. BTW be careful about dial-on-demand - there was no easy way of terminating the connection (we would power cycle it to terminate). One could set a timer i.e. after (say) 60s of inactivity disconnect but one could easily exceed any timeout if one paused to read a web page. After incurring high telco costs when the damn thing redialed 2000 times in one day (incurring reconnect charges each time) I converted to ADSL 24hrs access .... PaulH -- Paul Hewlett (Linux #359543) Tel: +27 21 852 8812 Cel: +27 72 719 2725 Fax: +27 86 672 0563 --