Matt, You mentioned dial in, I looked at the specs, but it didn't mention dial in. That would be great if it can do that. Whats the cost, and can you get them locally? Bill -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Alexander [mailto:matt@netpro.to] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:37 AM To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: dial up help I've used the Netgear RM356 Modem Router for quite a while for the same purpose. It does DHCP and NAT, you can write your own IP filtering rules, you can easily configure it for dial-in access, and it has a built in 4-port hub. It's a more spendy solution, but it does come in a cute little metal blue case. ;-) And heck, if you've got another Internet connection such as Cable or DSL, then you could even be your own one-line ISP. Yeah, yeah, yeah, all this can be done with the solution that Wayne provided, but... you still have to factor in that cute little metal blue case. ;-) http://netgear.com/categories.asp?xrp=4&yrp=10 ~Matt Quoting Wayne Conrad : > I'm not really going to answer your question -- I don't know how. But > I'll tell you a different way to solve the problem: Don't mess with > configuring dialup on Mandrake, Redhat, Debian, Windows, or whatever. > Instead, get an old 386 or 485 with 8MB of RAM and a floppy drive, a > NIC, and a modem. Download the Freesco disk image (www.freesco.org), > boot the box with it, configure the box to be a dial-up router with DHCP > support, and plug your Mandrake box (and any other boxes you have) into > it via an ethernet hub. > > You only need a monitor and keyboard on the box when you're configuring > it the first time. After it's set up, you can administer it via > telnet. > > Other hardware you'll need: A NIC for each box you want to connect to > the router ($10-$25 each), a hub ($20 at Fry's electronics, although if > you want to be very cheap and only want to connect one PC to the router, > you can skip the hub and just use a crossover cable), and cables > (perhaps $5 each, depending upon length and where you get them). > > The networking parts are so cheap now that only students are allowed to > whine about the cost :) And if you don't have an old 386 or 486, just > go to garage sales and thrift stores. A good one is usually $20 or > less (or free, if you pass by a neighbor throwing one out). > > It's more work and more hardware, but for me, it's a whole lot less > frustrating to get dialup working on Freesco than it is to get it > working in a "regular" distro. The bonus is that you won't ever have to > configure dialup on any of your machines, for any operating system, ever > again. You just configure each operating system on each machine to do > DHCP. And if you change ISP's, or get DSL, or get cable modem, or > whatever, all you have to do is reconfigure the router and go -- you > won't have to reconfigure each OS on each box on your LAN. > > Freesco even lets you switch back and forth between different > configurations. I've got my router set up with two different dialup > ISPs and my DSL line. When the DSL line goes down, I just use my > browser to tell the freesco box to become a dialup router again and my > network is back online. > > Oh, and you get firewalling, too. And NAT. > > That's my sideways answer, which doesn't really answer your question but > presents another way to solve the problem. > > Wayne > > On Wed, 11 July 2001, Ho Ping wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I am very new to Linux. I have thus far been able to > > install/boot Mandrake on my second partition. > > How/Where do I begin to configure a dialup to my ISP. > > I have contacted the ISP and received the standard > > "Huh" reply. My Win98 dials up just fine, so I am not > > detered at this time. > > > > Help? > > > > Bob > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't > post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss