[wplug] dsl setup

[Greg Simkins]

Then I probably didn't fully realize what was going on.  I added a Linksys 
Wireless Access point, which by default used 192.168.1.0 network, which was 
the same network supplied by something upstream of the Wireless Access 
point.  The installation wizard was totally frustrated by that and I had to 
configure it manually.  I was able to put the wireless network on a separate 
network, like 192.168.0.0 as I recall.  So, I thought my wireless access 
point was routing the 192.168.1.0 to the 192.168.0.0 network.  It worked, 
but evidently I misdiagnosed why.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carl Benedict" <cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com>
To: "General user list" <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug] dsl setup


> 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.
>
> -- 
> Carl Benedict
> Pittsburgh Techs
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> cbenedic at pittsburghtechs.com
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