Hal, I checked with the DSL provider and the modem does the authentication so I don't need to worry about that.
What I am concerned about now though is that the system board has an onboard Ethernet NIC. I haven't been using that for my home LAN because I needed a plug-in NIC that supported BNC (old LAN connection). I still need to use that plug-in NIC for the LAN. When the DSL service is installed they will give me an Ethernet hand-off to my computer. I just tried enabling the onboard NIC to see what would happen to my existing LAN connection. When I rebooted the system with the onboard NIC enabled RH configuration came up and asked me if I wanted to configure the NIC manually or with bootp/DHCP. I by-passed this setup because of the DSL service not available yet. After the reboot my plug-in NIC was no longer reachable from the LAN. I rebooted again and disabled the onboard NIC. The LAN then came up fine. What I am wondering is when the DSL service is connected (they use DHCP to provide my computer with the IP address) will that disable my manually configured NIC? Thanks again ! Bob -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
