Hey. yes, thanks to the "pacbell guy" Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for his
explanations.
Sory for the slow reply - I've been giving thanks :)
On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Vidiot wrote:
> Oops, missed the original response.
>
> Semantics. I read the posting to mean that you wanted to know how to set up,
> i.e., configure the modem. I responded that you don't configure them, so
> you don't care.
not a problem. My response was not supposed to be negative to you in any
way, just pointing out my philosophy in life. I do like to understand what
the hell is going on around me though :) Anyone heard that proxicom
commercial lately (about the language "what the hell are they talking
about") - I love it.
> If you mentioned your home configuration before, I must admit that I have
> forgotten it. Where is your Linux box in all this, or are you saying that
> your PC is your Linux box? If your Linux box is the only computer attached
> to your DSL and you can see other computer traffic via tcpdump, then a
> call will be necessary to your ISP to get the routing fixed. You are
> not paying for your DSL bandwidth to be eaten up by packets meant for others.
I have have serveral computers. I have a linux
gateway/firewall/nat/sever/everydamnthingelse box with two nics. One nic
connects to my DSL modem, and I have a default route to that interface. I
have a static IP too. The other nic goes to my LAN hub with a route
configured for local traffic. I have a Win98 PC, a Linux workstation, and
a dual boot laptop on the network mostly. I often have another box or two
on the LAN.
So, my configuration is exactly how I used to do it with a modem, except I
no longer have to dial and setup ppp - the interface is just a eth* now.
This is why I'm not really sure how it (yes, DSL) works and am curious.
I am going to have to read the tcpdump man page when I get some time, and
look at what's flying by. I'm suspicious of some of it, but for the most
part it looks ok. As I posted a minute ago, I no longet see any other
workgroups on my PC now :)
I truly don't feel like I'm getting affected by other people's traffic, so
I think all is well.
Juha and I took this off the list the other night and we were comparing
setups. He can telnet to his modem and configure it, whereas mine seems to
be in the "bridging" mode someone described earlier. Arp doesn't show it,
and I do nothing special to use it, except setup a route and specify the
gateway.
thanks
charles
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