I am currently running a PRO - have been for years. The difference to the HOME is the addition of a NAT router on the PRO. If you use it in this mode then there is nothing to setup in linux other than basic network configuration ie. a valid dhcp client server relationship or manual ip config etc. The HOME requires that you to set up pptp on a your linux box. In many firewall distros (such as IPCop) this is done for you and you simply tell the firewall which pptp phnone book entry to use. So if you use the PRO in PPTP mode it's like the home and I hear there is a hack somewhere to turn a HOME into a PRO. So...
the easiest setup with linux is to use a PRO in ppp mode with NAT routing and DCHP & DNS services active and your machine as DHCP client - like that it will 'just work' until you want to run any internet servers at which point you can read http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/howtos/Alcatel/alcatelpinholing.html in order to open the outside ports which you desire to serve from - eg http, smtp, bittorrent etc I have run the PRO like this, in PPTP with IPCop, and in BRIDGE mode with a WRT54G in France (but I get get the same thing to work here!). If you need to swap notes just ask. Regards, Chris Kerry Mayes wrote: > Has anyone out there set up one of these? I know they are really old > but should still work alright. > > Apparently I can now get ADSL (not that Telecom actually *told* me or > anything) so I have signed up but am having difficulty connecting. > > i found an old (2001!) article > (http://www.wlug.org.nz/AlcatelSpeedTouch) on setting these up under > linux but am still having difficulty. > > when I use the command: > pptp ip.address.of.your.adsl.modem user yourADSLusername persist > > i get a message like "device is required to authenticate but no secret > is found" > > (I set the password in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets as described). > > Kerry
