Configuring RH8 to use an ADSL Modem/Router

[Graeme Nichols]

administrator tootai wrote:
> Graeme Nichols a écrit :
> 
>> [...]
>> Are you saying that I have to assign a static ip address to eth0 equal 
>> to the default ip address of the router?
> 
> 
> No. Please take a look on my previous mail: I told you to put 
> 192.168.1.1 for your eth0 Please read it again carefully.
> 
>> and set ip forwarding in /etc/sysctl.conf and in 
>> /etc/sysconfig/network file to gateway=192.168.1.254 (the default ip 
>> address of the router) rather than gatewaydev=ppp0?
> 
> 
> gatewaydev=eth0 (see previous mail)
> 
>>
>> I will give that a try and see what happens.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
> Welcome
> 

Hi Daniel, I configured everything as you suggested and, hey presto!, it 
all worked.

Thank you very much for your help. Now I can put Windows back in mothballs.

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Kind regards,
Graeme Nichols.