Optus with Linux is easy. :-) I've done it twice so far, with only minor problems.
Michael Collins wrote:
If possible take the ethernet option with the modem as USB can give you all sorts of grief. My opinion/experience only though.
I'll second this. The ethernet modem Just Works.
During the install, the Optus guy will want to have a Windows machine to do the install on. They have to confirm that it works with the Optus software to complete the job. Once he's gone, just plug the modem in to your smoothwall box. The ethernet modems bind to the MAC address of the network card they're plugged in to, so reboot it when you move it to another box.
As has already been said, you just need to configure the external interface to get its address with DHCP, and it'll work.
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how easy is it to do? another I should add to this is, how easy is it to configure the machines on the local area network to share the internet connection? do I need to create an ethernet bridge or somehow ensure the nic on the green interface for the smoothwall users out there, is on the same subnet as the optus cable modem?
The internal (green? sorry, I've never used smoothwall) interface has to have a private IP address, which will be completely seperate from the Optus cable modem address (probably something like 192.168.0.1). Check the smoothwall docs about how to set up masquerading. It probably makes the setup incredibly simple.
G'luck! :-) -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
