Re: ADSL

["Sera Hill" <sera.hill@sympatico.ca>]

Thanks for the ultra-fast non-condescending responses!  I really *really*
appreciate them.  I should have told you guys more specifically what my
problems were on.

When I'm going through the networking setup, it asks me whether to set the
last bits at 0 or 1 or if I have a different Broadcast address.  When I go
onto winipcfg, I get the following under Host Information:  Node Type:
Broadcast.  This doesn't tell me if it sets all last bits to 0 or 1 or what?
Or does it?

I also didn't get the Gateway thing.  In my winipcfg, it says that the
Default Gateway is *.*.*.* (where the *s are wildcard IP #s).  Is this the
Gateway for Linux?

I started by setting everything up like an ethernet device, and the modem
says it's in link with the computer, but the computer cannot look up web
addresses, when I run dselect under the ats (?-you know, the kind that
downloads stuff) system.

-Sera
sera.hill@sympatico.ca
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Rati <ratirh@cs.purdue.edu>
>The broadcast is the address that your machine will send
>info out.  Usually it is the same as your IP address, except the last
>section is 255.  For example, if you have an IP address of 10.0.3.10, the
>broadcast usually is 10.0.3.255.
>The gateway is the machine through which
>all your requests to the internet is processed.  The gateway is usually
>the computer that allows you to get out of you network.  Usually the
>gateway is the same as your IP address, only the last number is 1.  As for
>setting up the ADSL, the way I understand it is you basically set it up
>like an ethernet device and everything should work.  I'm not exactly sure
>since i've never done it before.