Broadband???

[Chuck Sterling]

Chuck Sterling wrote:
> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 21:34:54 -0500, Alex Evonosky wrote
>>
>>> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
>>>
>>>> Get yourself a Router (A D-Link DI-804HV comes to mind). And let the 
>>>> router do
>>>> all the logging in and configuration for you.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thats fine for a simple NAT. For granularity and QoS, packet shaping 
>>> for VoIP (vonage, etc), allowing true stateful packet filtering, port 
>>> forwarding, etc; IPtables is a better solution.
>>>
>>
>> That's what I use as well. The features that are not required can be 
>> turned
>> off. I use the software firewall in Linux (Iptables) and I have one on 
>> Windows
>> (Not the windows crap version though) as well. But as for broadband
>> configuration, I find an external router is much easier to configure. And
>> since this one also has a 4 port switch, I can connect to other PC's 
>> on the
>> LAN as well. Plus mine logs on for me as well, so, I don't have to 
>> write a
>> script to do that for me.
>>
>> Wolf
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>>
> I'm going to hijack this thread for a moment since it seems pertinent to 
> a problem I'm having. If this is out of line, please feel free to flame 
> or ignore me as suits the situation.
> 
> I have a DSL connection through QWest and a local ISP. Setting up the 
> ActionTEC DSL modem using PPP0A and DHCP was trivial with Windows, as 
> was the Linksys WRT54G four-port switch. Fairly painless other than the 
> wireless, which I finally resolved to my satisfaction.
> 
> You may have noticed this is being posted from a WinXP system; this is 
> because under FC3, installed with the DSL active, I can do simple 
> network things like ping to, say, google or to my workplace, but cannot 
> get a browser (firefox as delivered) or up2date or yum to work. I should 
> have saved my routing table and other items before posting this, and 
> presented them here for review, but did not think of it in time. I will 
> boot up FC3 and grab that info and post it as a reply to this note.
> 
> I'm a bit confused and could use some help...
> 
> Be back soon.
> Chuck Sterling
> 

Well then, never mind. Upon restarting FC3 I found everything working. 
It's possible, likely, that I was mistaken about the browsers not 
working. In the case of up2date and yum I'm fairly sure that I just did 
not wait long enough for anything to start displaying before giving up. 
There are, if you do a full install, something like 720 updates to 
install, and I suspect that there was preliminary processing going on 
before progress was displayed. I got impatient. This evening I walked 
away for maybe 20 minutes and found yum doing its thing when I returned. 
I have not configured the news and mail clients yet, so am still posting 
from WinXP.

Thanks if you've given this "problem" some thought; no fix needed now.

Best regards,
Chuck Sterling