I have just signed up for a wires-only adsl account with Eclipse internet in the UK. For those of you not from the UK, wires-only has only recently been introduced here and involves the telecoms company (BT) switching on ADSL at the exchange. The user is required to purchase the modem and microfilters for each extension in the house. I will have one static IP address.
Today I received confirmation that the account has been set up and will go live on Monday. I have ordered an Alcatel SpeedTouch Pro single-port adsl router - DSLSource have just reduced the price to 138 quid + VAT, and given neither SEG nor Solwise have their alternatives in stock I feel I have a bargain. Anyway, I currently have two PCs networked and an NTL cable modem (connected to the Linux box) which will be sent back asap. One machine runs Linux, the other Windows. I use Samba on the Linux box so that the Windows machine can print to the Linux printers, and squidso that the Windows machine can access web sites. In my Linux PC I have two network cards. One card is connected to thecable modem, the other to a small 4 port Netgear hub. When I get the SpeedTouch Pro I intend removing the second card on the Linux box since the STP can be plugged into my hub. What I would like to do is to continue using the networking I have already setup for file sharing and printing (though there will obviously be some reconfiguring with there being a single nic in the Linux box. The quick setup guide for the STP uses DHCP as a default which would be great apart from the fact I can't see how I would be able to network the two machines if the IP addresses keep changing. Looking through the manual, I see sections for all sorts of protocols. Eclipse Internet tell me to use RFC2364 PPPoATM VC Encapsulation Multimode AutoModulation. The nearest I can find in the STP manual is either PPoA-to-PPTO relaying or PPP & IP routing. Which should I use? I would imagine I would need to allocate a static IP address to each machine (ideally what I already use - 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.0) this would surely mean that the networking would just carry on working. How do I accomplish what I want to do? I am eternally grateful to anyone who can explain what appears to me to be something of a Black Art!! Many thanks. BTW I am using Debian (Unstable) on my main machine and Windows 98 on the second machine upstairs. -- Phillip Deackes Using Debian Linux /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL AND NEWS / \
