[plug] ADSL - was: *NOTHING*

[Craig Dyke]

Richard

I have just recently joined Westnet and am waiting ok from Telstra.

Am I reading your response below correctly to say rp-pppoe is not required
to connect to Westnet?

Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Meyer" <meyerri at au1.ibm.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] ADSL - was: *NOTHING*


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> >>>and to simplify it I reduced the network to:
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> >>>redhat8machine---ADSLmodem+-----phoneline-----internet
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> >>What is this ADSL modem? I'm asking because many people call ADSL
> >>routers,
> >>"modems". Before I got ADSL, I read up on all sorts of things including
> >>pppoe, and went through installations of software. I then chose an
> >>ALCATEL
> >>SpeedTouch Pro 4 port router, and could safely forget everthing.
> >>I just had
> >>to define the router as my default route (10.0.0.138 in my case)
> >>and I was
> >>out and surfing. Alternatively, I could tell my Linux box that the
> >>router
> >>was a DHCP server, with the same results.
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> >The "modem" is an Alcatel Speed Touch "Home". I don't know whether it is
a
> router or not. The MAC software we >have talking to it at the moment uses
> the static ip address and the gateway ip address supplied by our isp. I
> >also know they have a broadast address. all of these addresss must be
used
> somewhere, but perhaps it's not as >hard as I think and I should just set
a
> default route. What do you reckon?
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> One of the guys who worked here had one of those. Unfortunately he's left,
> so I can't ask him any questions, but I certainly would give it a try.
> Remember to tell Linux about your ISP's nameservers, too.
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> The difference here may be that the Pro sits up front and has the static
IP
> address, while everything else hangs off it behind as a lan that is
> (hopefully) inaccessible from the 'net.
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> Heck, I'm no expert, but I had one machine set up and running within 10
> minutes with the help of the support people at Westnet. Admittedly, I
> booted into Windows and let them talk me through it, and then did the same
> in Linux afterwards. No problems. No pppoe. No special software.
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> RIchardM
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