On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:08:43PM +1100, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm about to trade in the putt putt and get a vroom vroom. ie. 56k to ADSL. > > I'm looking at going with iPrimus, but would like to talk to someone else who
Quite frankly, don't. They are one of the most expensive and, worse, completely refuse to support Linux. From memory only iPrimus and Telstra charge you for the data you send, every other provider make "upstream" traffic free. > uses them, hopefully with Mandrake. At the moment we are running through a > 98SE box with ICS. I'm about to build a Linux Mandrake box to change the > modem connection to. Then hopefully the ADSL can go into that box. Would > one of the knowledgeable among you please give me a list of what I should > install into this machine in preparation for first of all the modem > connection and in readiness for the changeover to Ethernet-ADSL? You'll need to determine what kind of mode iPrimus provision the line as: briding, routing or other. If it is bridging mode you may be required to run dhcp to obtain an address on your machine and that will be it. If it routing mode, you'll need to do nothing. If it is other you may need to run pppoe. Good luck, Anand -- `` We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. '' -- Buddha, The Dhammapada -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
