Linux and Verizon FiOS

I finally got someone at Verizon who was not in the marketing department.
He said the software they install on the users' computers is for the
convenience of the customers, and not really needed (MSN, Yahoo, etc.). That
if I can talk out a NIC on 192.168.0.* I will be OK. And that was easy since
I had a spare Intel PRO/100+ NIC on the shelf.

So I ordered the 15 megabit/sec download, 2 megabit/sec upload option and
they put it in Thursday (i.e., about 2 days ago). Fortunately my other
machine would run Windows.

We first set up the router from the Linux-only machine. And they could come
into the router from their network. But I could not use the network until I
activated my account, and that required a browser with ActiveX, and guess
who does that?

So we ran a CAT-5 cable from the router direct to the box running Windows
XP, reconfigured that to run direct to the router instead of my other
machine, and ran Internet Explorer. That got it all set up and the machine
running Windows could access the Internet. I then disconnected the Windows
machine from the Interntt (but it was too late). After that I set up the
Linux machine and all is fine.

By too late, I mean that the next time I booted into Windows XP, AVG
antivirus program detected and cleaned out a virus. I had never gotten a
virus on the Windows machine before because the firewall on my machine that
connects to the Internet imposes a very severe set of rules to the other
machine when it is running Windows and less severe rules when it is running
Linux. (It can tell the difference because when running Windows it has one
IP address and when running Linux, it has another.)

So now everything is up and running.

I have decided not to keep my old ISP with my static IP address, etc., and
to quit using sendmail to get to the Internet. I only need that for keeping
my two machines together for cron output (I prefer all those messages on my
main machine), and so that /bin/mail will work. I am not sure how to do that
without sendmail. I will not need to receive messages from out there, but
right now I cannot send either because Verizon bounces the messages because
I am not authenticated. Something Thunderbird does, but I have not figured
out how to make mutt or /bin/mail do. I was hoping to make sendmail do that,
but do not see how just yet. My guess is it would work if I turn off
SMART_HOST to Verizon, but I have not tried it yet.

15 Megabits/sec is sure more betterer than 56.6 (optimistic) Kilobits/sec.
;-) Yesterday, Red Hat saw fit to upgrade the kernel, and I get both the
actual kernel and the source (so I can build some modules that they do not
bother to compile). Now downloading the source used to take over an hour
most of the time, and yesterday it went so fast my first reaction was that
it did not work. But it did.

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.~. Jean-David Beyer Registered Linux User 85642.
/V\ PGP-Key: 9A2FC99A Registered Machine 241939.
/( )\ Shrewsbury, New Jersey http://counter.li.org
^^-^^ 07:30:00 up 22:56, 4 users, load average: 4.17, 4.25, 4.19
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