[newbie] [Newbie] Help With Gateway/Router

[Chris Howe]

Hello I have just been switched over from DSL broadband to PPPoE service and I am not able to get a working setup. I have tried Mandrake SNF....no go I have tried Smoothwall....no go and I have tried E-Smiths gateway and again no go. with SNF I wasn't able to get onto the internet at all. with E-smith the box I was setting up was on but none of my internal machines could access the net. there is obviously something wrong in what I am doing... here is all the detail I can think of to give...   my box is:   K6-2 300Mhz, 32MB or 64MB Ram, 3.2GB HD,no floppy drive(controller is dead), no cd-rom (I do use one when installing though), a tulip 10mbps Ethernet card, a 3Com 3C905b 10/100 Ethernet card, no mouse (serial controllers are dead), a Number Nine S3 base Video card, and of course a keyboard. I know what your first thoughts will be.....OMG why would you use such a machine....Dead Floppy,dead serial LOL and I know it sounds crazy but I do not need any of those things working anyways if it is a dedicated router. all I need is external access to it via SSH and I'm good to go..if I have a web base management tools that's cool too.   any suggestions as to what I should try next? please send me some help and if any more info I will gladly send it off. Oh I can connect to all three machines from my internal LAN and access the web interface.   thanks a million   C.Howe