Re: connecting to DSL

[Kenneth Scharf <scharkalvin@yahoo.com>]

Why dhcp?  I have a STATIC IP address on my xdsl
connection.  I am NOT using dhcp on windows, and am
sending this e mail out right now on windows.

--- Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <masee@usa.net> wrote:
> >>>>> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Scharf
> <scharkalvin@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>     > I (finally) seem to have a working connection
> via IDSL.  It
>     > works fine under windows by just setting up
> the IP, Gateway,
>     > Netmask, and DNS entries under the tcp/ip
> pulldown under the
>     > networking configuration for my network card.
> 
>     > IP 216.xxx.xxx.xxx gateway 216.xxx.xxx.1
> broadcast
>     > 216.xxx.xxx.255
> 
>     >   How do I do this under Potato?  I changed
> the entries in
>     > /etc/networks/interfaces for my ethernet card
> to match the ip,
>     > gateway, and netmask that worked under
> windows, and the
>     > /etc/resolv.conf file I added the lines:
> 
>     > nameserver 209.67.3.166 nameserver
> 209.185.207.135
> 
>     > which are the actual nameserver ip's I was
> given.
> 
>     > I then restarted the computer and tried to
> ping my gateway
>     > address (that worked).  I could not however
> ping my dns ip's
>     > (network unreachable), nor get to the debian
> site when I ran
>     > apt-get.  Any ideas?
> 
> Try installing one of the dhcp clients.  dhcpcd, or
> something similar
> (bootp?).
> 
> Marshal
> 
>     > I will also need to install a second network
> card, recompile the
>     > kernel to support ipmasq, and set the IP on
> the second card to a
>     > local lan address so I can firewall the net to
> another computer
>     > (actually I am building a second computer to
> just handle the
>     > firewall stuff and my linux workstation will
> be on of three
>     > computers on the local lan, the other two
> running windows).  Any
>     > ideas on what to do here?
> 
>     > Thanks!
> 
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