>>I am going to help a friend setup Mandrake 8.0 sometime this week and he
has 
qwest DSL with a 3com NIC and the Cisco 678 router. I am not sure how this 
setup works as I configure mine as a static LAN connection with cox@home.
Would I do the same with the qwest setup or would it be a PPP connection?
 my thoughts are to set it up statically as I believe they are NATted behind

the router using the 10.0.x.x network and point it to the router as the 
gateway. Am I correct here?
<<

If this was a business/persistent connection, I'd think your friend savvy
enough 
(read Mandrake, 3com NIC, Cisco router) to have mentioned an IP assignment.
So . . . , 
drawing from context, I'm guessing the connection is made through the basic
DSL account, 
which means you're looking at PPP and a Qwest-side dynamically assigned IP.



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