[plug] ADSL failover

[Simon Scott]

	Thats what I woulda thort.

	These friends of mine were saying that only a few distros were
supported.

	My take was that as long as the ethernet card is supported, who
cares what the distro is.

	We used RH because Pizzabox was not on their 'supported' list
(according to my friends).

	Oh well. 




	From:	Gavin Corfield <gavin at twobluedots.com.au> on 16/08/2001
09:20 AM
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	Subject:	Re: [plug] ADSL failover

	Simon Scott wrote:
	> 
	>         Thanks for the reply Glen
	> 
	>         We are still putting a failover modem on the box, but with
the
	> glowing reports of iinet adsl we wont bother automating it and
just give the
	> guy a cheat sheet so he can bring it up if adsl fails.
	> 
	>         BTW, maybe you can answer this, which distros does iinet
support
	> when installing adsl?
	> 
	>         We ended up installing a *bare* RH 7.1 installation with
Squid and a
	> few other things. The machine already has 2 network cards.
	> 
	>         Do you guys insist on installing your own network cards?


	When I got my iinet adsl fitted all that happened was they plugged
the
	modem in, connectted it to a laptop and attempt to ping the gateway
at
	the iinet end and their dns.  Then they give you your IP and gateway
IP
	with netmask and go away.  Given that the modem just forms an
ehternet
	bridge any OS should do.

	gavin



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