On Wed, 3 May 2000, Argentium G. Tiger wrote:
...(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.
From the description of his Windows client, Enternet, and the fact that he is with PacBell, it's most likely PPPoE. Also, the Westell DSL modem uses a standard cable, not crossover, from the modem to the network card, but it sounds like he already has that up and running with Windows.
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