[plug] Query about gateway computer settings

[Richard Meyer]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 16:38 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 24/03/2011, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 24/03/2011, Craig Foster <Craig at fostware.net> wrote:
> >> See below
> >>
> >>
> >
> >>
> >>> I do not care which of the modems we end up using, as long as I can get
> >>> the
> >>
> >>> modem that we use, to work as before, with a gateway firewall computer
> >>
> >>> connected to the LAN, with static IP addresses within the LAN
> >>
> >> Configure your modem using
> >> http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=mode.htm
> >> and set it to modem mode.
> >
> > That mode applies to the Netgear modem, and not to the Speedstream modem.
> >
> > The Netgear modem displays the options
> > Modem/router
> > Modem
> >
> > The Speedstream modem displays the options
> > Optus Bridge
> > NAPT
> > Full Bridge
> >
> > The path that you specified above (apart from the IP address which had
> > been replaced by the 10.x.x.x address), applies to the Netgear modem -
> > after logging in to the respective modems, the respective screens were
> > found using the Setup -> Mode paths of menu selections
> >
> >>
> >> Set the encapsulation type according to
> >> http://help.optuszoo.com.au/help/dsl/connected/windows/modemwvista/speedstream_eth
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Then configure the linux box to do PPPoE using the rest of the settings
> >> on
> >> that page.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > How do I set up the Linux box to do PPPoE?
> >
> > I thought that that was a configuration parameter of the modems,
> > rather than of a computer that goes through the modems.
> >
> > Or, do you men that bI should set up the modem for PPoE, using the 16
> > steps in the document?
> >
> > --
> > Bret Busby
> > Armadale
> > West Australia
> > ..............
> >
> 
> I can go out via the Speedstream modem, now, using the gateway computer.
> 
> Both ADSL modems are using PPoE connections.
> 
> But I cannot go out onto the Internet from a computer on the LAN, via
> the gateway computer.
> 
> The problem is, how do I use the gateway computer (how do I get it set
> up, differently to how it is now set up, to allow me) to go out on the
> Internet, through the gateway computer?
> 

Lets just step back a moment.

Are you forwarding the packets "echo 1 > /some/file/IPV4.forward" or
whatever?

Are you telling your inside computers (static IP) what the gateway is?



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