Ken -- There is one part of your latest reply that I do not understand. At 07:37 PM 11/23/02 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: [...]
Since I suggest two different approaches, I am not certain which of them "this" refers to.> 3. The approach you seem to have arrived at ... put the NIC in a Windows > box; register the NIC; move the NIC to your Linux router ... is the good, > conservative approach to making the connection work (assuming you are in > situation 1B, not 1A). You could also try connecting via your ISP's > preferred browser (IE, no doubt) running on a NAT'd Windows or Mac host on > the LAN. If you do this right, the connection should look to the ISP as > though it were coming from the router's IP and MAC address (unless the ISP > specifically has anti-NAT stuff in its system, an unlikely possibility ... > but one that will cause bigger problems than we've considered so far if > they somehow do it).Thanks, I think this is what I did from the iBook. Trouble is, it fails to negotiate an ip address from the server (either it ignores the specification to use my `router', or it's asking the firewall for the address.) It then falls back to trying ping (but doesn't specify who or where). Hence my original question.
If it is the second ... then I am still unclear on what some of the "it"s refer to, as well as whether the "router" and the "firewall" are both the same Linux device or if you mean one term or the other to refer to some different device.
For the second approach to work, the iBook itself has a LAN address (either assigned statically or via a LAN DHCP server). The ISP then needs to be assigning the external address by DHCP, using the router's MAC address for authentication. To get this last part to work, you may need to reboot the router, or at least force it to request a new DHCP lease.
Or it may not work at all. Depends on the details of how the ISP expects you to authenticate yourself.
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