[plug] David's ADSL Problem

[Jonathan Young]

Daniel Foote wrote:

>>TO THE REST OF THE PLUG LIST:  Supposing that a modem is working and
>>connected and attached to you Debian Sarge based PC via Ethernet, what would
>>be the steps (1, 2, 3, 4 etc.) that you would do in an X Windows session to
>>tell your computer to use 192.168.1.1 as the Default Gateway with
>>transparent proxy and DNS from the modem and to ignore your dial-up
>>connection and use the Ethernet instead.
>> Can some people who are more familiar with this OS than I am please post
>>some really simple steps to help make the changes required.
>> This is the bit that I will still need help with from the rest of the PLUG
>>list... anyone?
>>    
>>
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>1. Become root
>$ su root
>Password: ******
>
>1a. Log on as root if on local console
>Login: root
>Password:
>#
>
>2. Bring down eth0
># ifdown eth0
>
>You can confirm that you need to set the gateway by setting the
>interface up manually, temporarily.
>
>3. Confirm by bringing up eth0 with a gateway (assuming host IP is .1.2)
># ifconfig eth0 address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 up
>
>4. Try the connection to see if it works. It should at this point. If
>not, something was entered wrong. Use:
># ifconfig eth0 down
>before trying step 3 again.
>
>  
>
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>As you can see, this is not easy to explain to another person, or to
>have them do. For all we know, the root password might be unknown,
>which means it all stops at step 1.
>
Thanks Daniel.  That is the kind of stuff I was after.

>If you think it will help, pass it on.
>
You have already passed it on by posting to PLUG.

David, if you're reading, this is probably worth a shot...


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