The Newbie Again

John (EBo) David plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:29:16 -0700


Patrick Fleming wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, George Toft wrote:
> 
> > Qwest Choice OnLine (at least in Anthem) is VDSL.  It's plug and play.
> > Put a 10mbps NIC in the Linux box, set it up for DHCP, and off
> > you go.
> >
> > Link to my router --> http://georgetoft.com/linux/firewall/index.html
> >
> > The fun part is when the customer service weenie tells you to reboot
> > your Windows computer to fix the problems with the gateway box.
> > ifdown and ifup work quite well for that.  I still haven't figured
> > out how to fake the music.
> 
> Just copy some .wav files from a Win box.... then play them in rapid
> succession making it sound like you just rebooted half a dozen times. I
> bet that would blow their minds.. =)
> Patrick

telling them to face the music? ;-)

  EBo --