Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............... K You give new meaning to "Headless/zombie Gateway" ! Sheesh! Frankenstein would be proud!
You don't say if you have: - A HUB/Switch/Router to the other terms on the LAN. - Speed of your preferred LAN *may be irrelevant, i'm just trying to CMA *Cover my ass* - What your current LAN topology looks like. Please diagram in detail & write usa Ph.D. ;) Femme > Chris Howe wrote: > > Hello I have just been switched over from DSL broadband to PPPoE > service and I am not able to get a working setup. I have tried > Mandrake SNF....no go I have tried Smoothwall....no go and I have > tried E-Smiths gateway and again no go. with SNF I wasn't able to get > onto the internet at all. with E-smith the box I was setting up was on > but none of my internal machines could access the net. there is > obviously something wrong in what I am doing... here is all the detail > I can think of to give... > > my box is: > > K6-2 300Mhz, 32MB or 64MB Ram, 3.2GB HD,no floppy drive(controller is > dead), no cd-rom (I do use one when installing though), a tulip 10mbps > Ethernet card, a 3Com 3C905b 10/100 Ethernet card, no mouse > (serial controllers are dead), a Number Nine S3 base Video card, and > of course a keyboard. I know what your first thoughts will be.....OMG > why would you use such a machine....Dead Floppy,dead serial LOL and I > know it sounds crazy but I do not need any of those things working > anyways if it is a dedicated router. all I need is external access to > it via SSH and I'm good to go..if I have a web base management tools > that's cool too. > > any suggestions as to what I should try next? please send me some help > and if any more info I will gladly send it off. Oh I can connect to > all three machines from my internal LAN and access the web interface. > > thanks a million > > C.Howe
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