Did you have to *do* something to change the modem to use brideg mode?? On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:59, Anthony Wood wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 14:49, Adam Hewitt wrote: > > I have a friend who is tryign to configure ADSL under debian. The > > a "friend", eh? > > > problem is that he is connecting to RSL.com who are using bridged ADSL > > with a static IP address. > > We just switched from Pacific to TPG, I assumed that they were using the > Telstra ADSL setup like Pacific were (we were on the Telstra Trial). > > I was having all sorts of trouble and was about to set up a Win98 > box. I asked them where I could download the drivers from, they > said just set up my NIC with the given specs, so I realised there > was no pppoe. > > The info we got: > > Configuration Option: Static IP: Modem in bridged mode > Customer IP: a.b.c.x > Gateway IP: a.b.c.y > Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.252 > > relevant section of /etc/network/interfaces file: > iface eth1 inet static > network a.b.c.min(x,y)-1 > gateway a.b.c.y.177 > address a.b.c.x > broadcast a.b.c.max(x,y)+1 > netmask 255.255.255.252 > > if he is changing from pppoe and doing ipmasq, you should remove the ppp > file in > /etc/ipmasq/ and change his startup scripts to run ipmasq. > > The ppp file in /etc/ipmasq/ tells ipmasq to run when a ppp connection > is created. How that works I don't know. > > cheers, > Woody > > > -- > > Adam Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > Anthony Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Switch Online Group -- Adam Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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