On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:40, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 26/09/06, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 18:32:04 +0800,
>
> I would suggest staying away from combined routers and modems.
> I would prefer to not have the ISP have control over routing on my local
> network. With your own router, you can filter traffic going to the modem
> so that you don't leak stuff that you don't want to.
> This also makes testing easier in the case where there are problems as
> you can pull the router and test the modem without any acls getting in
> the way. This can make diagnosing whose equipment is at fault simpler.
That is exactly what I'm trying to do! I suspect that my router is
faulty, and I want to diagnos it. That is why I must eliminate the
router and connect just by using the modem. How on earth can I do that
on Fedora? Where do I enter my ISP username and password? The ISP only
provids instructions on how to do that in Windows.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
Hi Dotan. I'm on dialup through a serial modem, but I understand that you need
to setup pppoE for ADSL connections.
Have a look at the man page for it (man pppoe), and also (man 8 adsl-setup)
which appears to be a script that asks you for info.
This is the link to the pppoe website.
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_rp-pppoe.php
I havn't run the script, so don't know what it asks, and don't want to risk
messing up my connection.
Nigel.