On 22/06/06, Steve Holdoway wrote:
You normally plug it into a switch ( or firewall then switch ).
It won't work plugged into a switch or hub. It will work plugged into the WAN side of a router, or directly into the ethernet port of any computer (OS independant). On a box running IPCop, Smoothwall or similar, plug it into the eth port that you have designated as the "Red Interface" and set the IP address of the red interface to the static IP that Telstra has given you. They should provide you with a static IP, gateway address and subnet mask. The technician who installs it should have these addresses printed on his work order (provided the call centre monkey who took your order remembered to add it to the notes and the system didn't lose it - they use a flakey system called ICSS to process work orders). On a Debian box you could probably just add a line in your start-up script to assign the Telstra-supplied IP address via some incantation of "ifconfig" - a standard command on any distro. Yuri
