[wplug] dsl setup
Carl Benedict
cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com
Tue May 10 15:38:36 EDT 2005
On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 08:56 -0400, Greg Simkins wrote:
> A little cheap Linksys router should be all you need. It works for me.
>
> I worked on a Verizon DSL connection for a lady in Lebanon, PA. I was
> surprised that they issued her a nonroutable 192.168.1.0 address. If you
> don't need to serve anything, that should work fine.
>
> Greg
This is because they ship you a router/modem combo which does DHCP for
your LAN by default. You aren't going to connect to the 'net without a
real routable IP. The outside gets its own routable IP via DHCP as
well.
A friend of mine recently purchased Verizon DSL too. They are shipping
the Westell 2200 DSL modem. Here's a guide I found that some of you
might find useful. For example, if you want to disable the LAN DHCP
server as I did.
http://www.lava.net/support/config/dsl/westell/
For Linux, you should simply be able to do a DHCP_REQUEST and get a
private address (192.168.1.x for the Westell 2200 series) as Cameron
stated. I'm not sure how you'd handle the initial setup on Linux
though. They make you jump through a lot of hoops and sign-up garbage.
I'd be curious to see how that's done. My guess is that you'd have to
do it via a win32 box first.
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Carl Benedict
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