RE: Changing from ADSL Modem to Router (repost)
> From: David Baron [mailto:d_baron@012.net.il]
> Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:36 AM
>
> I connect now through pptp. The computer sends the login and
> a cron job
> attempts to keep the connection. Various files in
> /etc/ppp/peers have login
> info and some options.
>
> How do I change to a router (the router logs in and tries to keep the
> connection)?
PPTP? Not PPPoE? If you actually meant PPPoE, I believe every broadband
router that you can buy today supports PPPoE. So you would just need to
configure it with your login info.
Then on your linux machine, strip out all of the ppp stuff, and modify your
/etc/network/interfaces file so that the entries for "eth0" looks like:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
This tells it to aquire an IP address from your router, since all broadband
routers include a DHCP server to assign IP addresses for client machines on
your network (wired or wi-fi).
Hope this helps!
-- Kevin
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