I been watching this thread a bit and I'm still confused. The Westel modem is connected to the hub in the port that has the switch enabled to crossover. (Don't need a crossover cable if you can switch it at the hub. ;) The windows software has no problem going over the NIC (192.168.1.4), through the hub, to reach the modem. PPPOE looks like it needs an interface (i.e., eth1) before it will do anything. I got the MAC address for the modem, but I don't see how I can use that. I'm sure about DHCP since I don't think it applies to this situation. Anyway, unless someone comes up with a better idea, I'm going to break out an old NIC and crossover cable to do this thing right.
That was an interesting side trip. Didn't get anywhere because the old NIC that I had required more work than I was willing to put in for a night. I decided to wait until I got my firewall box put together. In the meantime, I put the wvdial.dod back into service for the rest of the network and told my roommates to suck some eggs while I have the fastest Internet connection in the house. It's kinda ironic that the Windows client can work across the hub but the Linux client doesn't. <sigh> Christopher Reimer -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/