[PLUG] DSL is working

["Gregory T. Weber" <angler@voicenet.com>]

Much thanks to PLUG member Charles Stack for guiding me through setting
up my DSL connection.  I thought I would summarize what I have learned
in case others are in the same position (Got DSL but know nothing about
Networking and your ISP doesn't want to talk Linux).  My task was to set
up DSL on both my Window's 98 legacy machine that my wife is fond of and
my  Linux box.  Really,  I all needed to know was what to plug in where.

I started to try to do this through the Control Panel.  Charles strongly
recommended using  linuxconf over Control Panel and provided the
following directions.

a) Go to Config|Networking|Client Tasks|Basic Host Information
b) In Host name, give your machine a name (I used angler.voicenet.com)
c) Under Adapter 1...
    1) Check Enabled
    2) Config Mode should be either manual or DHCP depending on what
VoiceNet told you.
    3) If manual...
        a) Enter your IP address (either 10.0.0.X or your static IP>
(whatever voicenet told you).
        b) Set your netmask.
        c) Set your Net device to eth0
        d) Select the correct Kernel module for your network card (I
used 3x509)
   4) If DHCP, you'll need to set c)3)c) and c)3)d). (I think).
d) Click the Accept button.
e) Go to Config|Networking|Client tasks| Name server specification (DNS)

f) Set the following...
    1) Check DNS Usage.
    2) default domain = voicenet.com (or whatever YOUR domain is)
    3) Enter IP address of DNS server 1
    4) Enter IP address of DNS server 2
g) Click Accept
h) Go to Config|Networking|Routine and gateways|Set Defaults
 i) For Default Gateway, you'll enter the IP address of your DSL modem.
 j) Don't worry about Enable Routing unless you are setting up to be a
router.
k) Accept the changes.
 l) Click Quit and Activate the Changes.

    If all goes well, you should be able to surf the web.

So it did go well and I now have both Windows and Linux using DSL.
Seems easy enough now that I have done it once (kind of embarrassing
really).  I currently only have one IP address so only one machine can
be connected at a time.  So I have to buy another IP from Voicenet
($5/mo).  Charles suggested using IP Masq to get around this.
Apparently,  if I had  two NICs in my box , IP Masq could allow many
machines to share a single IP address.  The downside being that  nobody
will be able to directly access the masqueraded machines as they would
be on a private network.

Thanks,

Greg



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