Hello,
Update time. I sent a message to the list a while ago asking about iPrimus
and ADSL and waited ages and no comment. I got so impatient I signed up with
them anyway. The next day I get a message telling me about another ISP that
offers more d/l and faster speed for less money. Oh well, just my luck I
couldn't wait one more day. I've always managed to do this to myself. :^)
So then I wait and wait for the hardware to arrive. Get it and find the
instructions are less than ideal. Muddle my way through and get a connect
24hrs later. Great. Over the moon and smiling from ear to ear. Now it's
time to share this connection. Now this is where the fun starts. I'd been
told three times by Primus that it is possible. They never mentioned they
don't support ICS though. So everytime I load up ICS, the modem dissapears.
Not amused. Rung them and asked "what do I do?" Sorry, we don't support
that. Complain about it. Sorry, nothing we can do.
Ok, next order of business is a router. Get that and the instuctions are worse
than the modem. I've had two friends who work in IT here to help me get it
working. 2:30 this morning and everything is bloody terrific. It's now all
working. And I still haven't heard back from Primus Support as to whether
someone knows how to configure ICS to work, even if they don't officially
support it, just to get me out of trouble. They are useless, but its working
and I've ended up with a great hardware firewall and a print server as well.
I couldn't ask for more. Well I could, but Primus probably wouldn't support
that either. :^)
You may remember me also asking a while ago about how to get a printer working
in VMware as well. The print server function of the router took care of that
too. I'm in heaven.
Regards
Trevor
> I;m not sure its that big a deal.
>
> I went to Optus a little while ago. I got all ready and built a
> dedicated gateway, Basiscally it was plug in eth0 establish DHCP and I
> was in business. It took me most of a weekend to build a gw, configure
> and write the iptables. i just redid it with a residential gw switch
> that took 5 minutes ... if you need help let me know.
>
> good luck
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