Here's the tutorial/howto I followed to get mine up. It's pretty good if
your provider uses pppoe and you use ipchains (which you probably will if you
are indeed going back to 7.2).
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/cpppoe.html
-s
On Friday 11 May 2001 08:04 am, you wrote:
> We are changing over from using 3 modems to a DSL.
>
> I am trying to set up a home network to use one DSL connection.
>
> I followed the tutorial on networking at Mandrake. The author of the
> tutorial talks about two network cards in the linux server...the one card
> would be "eth0"....what about the other card...I suspect that it is for
> the DSL modem to plug into it....but what do I do with this card in the
> Linuxconf setup....is it "eth1"?....what info do I put in...the same type
> of info that I used for "eth0" but different numbers?
>
> My internal home network will include 2 Win98 machines (my kid...can't
> convince them to switch over to Linux" and my dual operating
> computerand my Linux router/gateway machine. What information do I need to
> put into Win98 networking menu?
>
> IP address - specify an IP address or obtain an IP
> Gateway - Do I enter the Gateway address that I put on my Linux
> server?...or leave it blank?
>
> Do I disable the DNS or enable and use the DNS numbers that you get from
> the DSL provider?
>
> Right now I have the Gateway machine and a Win98 machine hooked up
> together and I can "ping" back and forth....but thats as far I have
> gotten.
>
>
> I am going back to Mandrake 7.2 - I loaded up version 8 last night and my
> machine bogged down and is much faster with version 7.2 and it has less
> automatic setup programs that you can't learn with.
>
>
> Thank - I shall probably be back with more questions.
>
>
> Thank you again
>
>
> Rod
>
>
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