Re: [SLE] Router and 2 PC's question(s)
From: Paul Hewlett (hewlett_at_netactive.co.za)
Date: 03/30/05
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:13:20 +0200
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 08:18, John B wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I really need to cut back on the spending, so unfortunately have to share
> a dial-up access. I've got one PC with SuSE 9.2, and the other (in another
> room) that runs W98.
> I bought a dial-up modem that has a built in router and 2 NIC's, one card
> for each system.
> My question(s):
>
> Once I put the NIC's in the systems and hook to the router, what kind of
> thing(s) do I need to do on the SuSE box? I want to use my dial-up access
> number and password, so that shouldn't be hard to reconfigure on the
> windows box, but I'm not sure what to do once I have each PC hooked up to
> the router.
I had a similar device (a Duxbury DSL/Cable router with dial-on-demand) and it
worked by configuring it via a web interface (browse to
http://192.168.168.1) and setup your dialup parameters (such as account name,
account password, ISP name) in the router. It also had a DHCP server. One
this was done, internet access was transparent as all the necessary
parameters on the SuSe box are downloaded via the DHCP server - just set the
ethernet device on SuSE to use DHCP- likewise for W98.
BTW be careful about dial-on-demand - there was no easy way of terminating the
connection (we would power cycle it to terminate). One could set a timer i.e.
after (say) 60s of inactivity disconnect but one could easily exceed any
timeout if one paused to read a web page. After incurring high telco costs
when the damn thing redialed 2000 times in one day (incurring reconnect
charges each time) I converted to ADSL 24hrs access ....
PaulH
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