On Saturday 30 September 2006 11:40, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 26/09/06, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 18:32:04 +0800, > > > > I would suggest staying away from combined routers and modems. > > I would prefer to not have the ISP have control over routing on my local > > network. With your own router, you can filter traffic going to the modem > > so that you don't leak stuff that you don't want to. > > This also makes testing easier in the case where there are problems as > > you can pull the router and test the modem without any acls getting in > > the way. This can make diagnosing whose equipment is at fault simpler. > > That is exactly what I'm trying to do! I suspect that my router is > faulty, and I want to diagnos it. That is why I must eliminate the > router and connect just by using the modem. How on earth can I do that > on Fedora? Where do I enter my ISP username and password? The ISP only > provids instructions on how to do that in Windows. > > Dotan Cohen > http://what-is-what.com Hi Dotan. I'm on dialup through a serial modem, but I understand that you need to setup pppoE for ADSL connections. Have a look at the man page for it (man pppoe), and also (man 8 adsl-setup) which appears to be a script that asks you for info. This is the link to the pppoe website. http://www.roaringpenguin.com/penguin/open_source_rp-pppoe.php I havn't run the script, so don't know what it asks, and don't want to risk messing up my connection. Nigel.
