[NTLUG:Discuss] DSL Sorrows

[Dan Carlson]

On Win 98 you can use winipcfg.exe and ipconfig.exe to display your
configuration info.  Execute them from a command prompt or using the Start /
Run... menu command.  With winipcfg.exe be sure to select your adapter of
interest from the drop down list, and then click on the More Info button to
see all the information.  With ipconfig.exe use the /all command line
parameter to see all the information.

Dan Carlson

----- Original Message -----
From: "WILLIAM PEARSON" <wpearson at pcservice.com>
To: "NTLUG" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 5:40 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] DSL Sorrows


> Hello,
>
> I'm having difficulties getting the Gateway information for the
> Southwestern DSL connection. The Windows box it's currently hooked up to
> has selected on it's 'NTS' system "use default gateway". Tech support
> doesn't want to help me, they don't want to give me the gateway, netmask &
> submask info. I never even mentioned anything LAN or Linux, they just
> didn't want to give me that information, weird?
>
> What I'd like to do is to hook up my Redhat 6.0 box to the DSL modem (it's
> external) and then have it go out of my RH box to my hub to break off to
my
> wife's Win98 box. Later I'm wanting to hook another system (perhaps BeOS)
> to the hub as well. I want to use Linux as the server/firewall to do this
> with because it supports 'IP masquerading'.
>
> Is there any way anyone could suggest for me to gather my gateway IP from
> my Win 98 box? Also, how does Linux deal with the username and password
> needed to sign into the SWBell DSL connection? I haven't encountered that
> as of yet so I'm not certain. Should I use Linux as a 'dial-up connection'
> system, or just 'LAN-connection' system?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Will Pearson
> A+ Certified Computer Technician
>
> "640k Ought to be enough for everybody" -Bill Gates
>
>
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