I have a XS setup at a remote location in India, where the XS has a Ethernet port set up as WAN, and a Mesh antenna (USB) set up as the LAN interface. We've used the Ethernet WAN port via a crossover cable via Internet-connection-sharing via Windows XP via a USB 3G modem (make sense?). I use OpenVPN to establish a tunnel to this machine whenever it gets online. This may sound like a complicated setup, but it works, except for the Windows XP part, which is a bit of work every time and not very reliable.
Now, we have the possibility of using a compatible USB 3G modem to get to the Internet directly. I am looking at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Using_a_different_WAN_connection to setup the USB stick as the WAN port. I have one shot at this. Essentially, when I get to the XS, it will be through the Ethernet port, but when I change things over, its a one shot deal. Anything else I should concern myself with? Any gotchas? cheers, Sameer -- Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel