Re: Telsta cable help

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 12:08:32 -0800

Hi Dale, thanks for the reply

Probably didn't explain that very well.
I have a cable modem (sb500i Surfboard) connected to my box via usb, there are 2 options with the modem cat5 or usb.

Then I have Cat 5 cable ? RJ 45s.......not sure of the terminology here.......... connection from my ethernet card in my box, to a 4 port switch , which is connected to my box via usb ( power source ? ).

I am using Cat 5 for the home network

I am not really concerned about getting my home network up just yet , I would be happy just to get my modem talking to my ISP, and the internet.
Where do I configure my Telstra supplied username and passwd ?

Thanks,
Brian Connell

Dale Anderson wrote:

oops take that back ...didnt see the USB bit ......next question why usb ???
CAT5 is cheap as and your going to get a damn site better
transfer rate on the internal network.
Not to mention dead easy to setup

Cheers
Dale.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 3:54 AM
Subject: Re: Telsta cable help




Assuming you have the cable modem on the uplink port and the boxes


connected


to the switch

boot from gentoo live cd

#ifconfig eth0 "your ip provided by telstra" netmask 255.255.255.0

then

#route add -net default gw "telstra gw" netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1

install gentoo

before rebooting into new gentoo install add the 2 DNS ip's to
/etc/resolve.conf

Cheers
Dale
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Connell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2004 11:04 PM
Subject: Telsta cable help




Hi All,

I have an AMD xp 2200 box.500mb ram,
2 cdrw/dvd drives,
2 hard drives (1 for windows 80G, 1 for linux 40G
hard drive enclosure usb, 20G
cable modem (surfboard sb5100i, connected usb)
gigabyte 4 port switch/hub? connected usb, networked to my sons
computer,working with windows xp.
realtek ethernet card

I multi-boot winxp, mandrake 9.2, and untill about 2 weeks ago gentoo


1.4


Just recently signed up for telstra cable broadband and downloaded
gentoo 2004 live cd + packages,
decided to install gentoo 2004 and scrapped 1.4,  stupid I know,  should
have tried to update but I couldn't get my cable modem to
work.
Haven't been able to get gentoo working again since, but I will,  I
prefer it to anything else I've tried so far.
I'm still driving with L plates as far as Linux goes, and my networking
skills are almost zero.

I would like to get my cable modem working at first in Mandrake, later
for gentoo.
If someone in the group would be kind enough to give me some pointers it
would be much appreciated,

My modem and ethernet card seem to be recognised on bootup, but I have
no idea.....on almost everything......but specifically
how do I send my Telstra, username and password for instance, is there
something like kppp,?

I have a settings sheet from Telstra with, static ip address
2 gateways and 2 dns numbers, but I don't know how to configure these.

I have googled around,....and just got more confused....... and played
with linuxconf networking among other things,
but I'm really just floundering here.
Hope the formatting on this post is ok, I'm having to paste everything
to open office, save as ms office doc, save to floppy, and paste to
mozilla in windows,
so I guess anything could happen.

Sorry about the long post, I would have snipped dmesg, but I'm not sure
what might be important.


Thanks,
Brian Connell.

# ifconfig returns..............

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:79:5E:61
inet addr:203.79.64.21 Bcast:203.79.64.255


Mask:255.255.255.0


         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:155 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:14412 (14.0 Kb)
         Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
         RX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
         RX bytes:10908 (10.6 Kb)  TX bytes:10908 (10.6 Kb)



bc]$ dmesg returns.............
(snipped)

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