[Techtalk] Config DSL for RH

[Carla Schroder]

Since you're trying to run a LAN off a single connection, you'll need a 
separate router, it sounds like you have a DSL modem with no routing 
capabilities. I don't think any DSL provider gives customers a real router. 
It would help if you gave the name and model number of your DSL modem.
 
DSL modem -> Router -> LAN. 
Something like Linksys, 
http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=23&prid=20
That's the fast n easy way, and it takes up only a little space.

Or build a Linux router on an old PC. 
http://networking.earthweb.com/netos/article/0,,12083_1107911,00.html

Coyote Linux and the Linux Router Project are worth looking at too.

Carla
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On Sunday 16 June 2002 06:25 am, you wrote:
> Hi James and all,
>
> I don't believe my DSL provides DHCP because when I do an automatically
> configured with DHCP, it not only doesn't configure my network correctly,
> but it also changes my login into level 3 instead of level 5.  When I
> used Win2k, I didn't actually configure anything in windows, but I
> actually accessed the router itself (via a browser) and configured the
> router to the DSL settings.  The router actually does the DSL login for
> me so that I don't have to login each time I use the internet.
>
> --Rei
>
> On Sat, 15 Jun 2002 20:32:00 -0400 James <james at james-web.net> writes:
> > Does your DSL router provide a DHCP server for your local network?
> >
> > If so, you should just have to turn on DHCP in Linux ("dhcpcd" in
> > Red
> > Hat, iirc) and you should be flying.
> >
> > Unless your DSL router is really a DSL modem and you need some kind
> > of
> > PPPoE setup to connect.
> >
> > Let me put it this way: How would you connect a Windows machine?
> >
> > - James
>
> If you think either me or Serial Experiment Lain is just plain weird, you
> should read some works of Ted Nelson and Vannevar Bush and John C. Lilly
> on Xanadu...they thought of mentally synching with the Wired in the
> 1930-50s!  Another grave reminder that philosophy and computer science
> should NOT mix...ESPECIALLY when LSD is involved.--Quantum Smurf
>