thanks to veryone who helped out, the problem was i had it plugged into the uplink port, woops :) thanks to gilbert for the solution :) i allways had to plug the direct line from the qwest box into the uplink port so i just figured it was the same, boy was i wrong =/ well it works now and i got all the updates so its goin good, chalk up another successful installfest install :)

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 01:05:08 -0700
"robert jorgenson" <snoogans@qwest.net> wrote:

> i was at the installfest today and installed IPCop on an extra box that i had, im trying to figure out how i need to set it up, i have qwest's vdsl which means that there is this gateway box sitting in our living room with a TV cable in and a TV cable and ethernate cable out acting as a dhcp server. I would assume i setup IPCop to get its ip from the gateway box and set it to act as a dhcp server for the rest of my network, however i am very new to networking and i am not sure exactly if that will work or what i have to do, any pointers in the right direction would be great :) Im reading the docs on the IPCop website right now hopefully i will come up with something from there too.
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