On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 21:39 +0200, Raoul Snyman wrote:
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Ken Schneider wrote: | Since the modem is -also- a router why not just use it and be done with | it. It performs firewalling by using NAT and there is NO reason to | connect to it with your linux box and use dsl0 as well. that's not going to work. as i said in my original post, that's a long and painful story. i'm dealing with a half-baked modem-router (from a half-baked telecoms company) that doesn't even look or do what the manual that comes with it says it does. i'm using ppp over ethernet, hence both eth0 and dsl0 (with dsl0 using eth0).
Can you afford a Linksys router ($20-30US)? They do pppoe, it's what I have been using for four years, and dhcp amongst other things. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge