John B wrote:
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'm not sure (we need more info), but my guesses are that 1- the modem-router has built in firewall that does NATing, 2- that it configures via a browser, 3- it has a built-in DHCP server to auto configure you clients, 4- that it does dial on demand. If those assumptions are correct, your computers will not know anything about dial-up, they will only know about the router, i.e will get their IP, gateway, and DNS settings from the router. Whenever they want internet access, their traffic will cause the modem-router to dial-up. So all you would need to do is correctly configure your modem-router via a browser with the correct user/password, and check other settings as needed. BTW, I have never heard of such a device, what brand is it? 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.
Since the modem is not connected to either machine, it will only be dial-up for the router, not for either clients. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871