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Okay, I went ahead and paid the $70 for the
software, which I consider very reasonable. Now I wonder if anyone can help me
with a problem I am having.
Typical story: BellSouth comes out and installs my
ADSL modem to the Ethernet card in my Windows 98 machine, informing me that
Windows and Mac are the only supported platforms, and only for a single machine.
They tell me that trying to use it on a LAN or any other operating system leaves
me on my own. Okay, fair enough. As soon as they leave, I start trying to figure
out how to set up a firewall using Linux. Not being all that Linux savvy, I
quickly decide that a commercial solution is better than spending weeks trying
to get it all figured out and never be certain how secure I have made it. So I
found STN, and it sounds like just the ticket.
The problem is that I cannot get it to work with
DHCP from the ISP. Before I pulled the plug on the Win98 machine, I recorded the
winipcfg information: the gateway address, DNS, my assigned IP address, etc. STN
works great as long as I hard-code all this into the setup, but as soon as I try
to use DHCP (which my ISP DEFINITELY uses), I am lost in the water. Now, as long
as BellSouth keeps my IP address the same, no real problem, but I have no doubt
that they will change it eventually, as it is not a static address. Then I
suppose I will have to unhook everything and hook it back into Win98 and move
the NIC card from the firewall to the Windows box to get the new IP..what a
hassle.
I followed some of the NG posts about the MAC
address. Indeed, BellSouth does register the MAC address. Since my Win98 machine
uses a PCI card, I could not simply move it to my 386 firewall box, so I
notified BellSouth of the new MAC address. They changed it, but it still hasn't
helped. Of course, they refuse to help me any further unless I am on the Windows
box.
FYI, I am running STN on a 386 with 8 meg RAM, two
D-Link DE-220P ISA 10BaseT cards, a floppy drive, a hard drive, sound card,
CD-ROM, keyboard, monitor, and video card. I will probably remove everything but
the net cards, floppy drive, and video card once I get it all
going.
Can anyone help me?
Thanks,
Carl Nelson
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