[NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions

[Jason Ferguson]

I have DSL through SWBell here in Greenville (just moved from Omaha, it
suprised me I could get DSL _and_ Cable here).

I was checking into using Coyote Linux, an offshoot of the Linux Router
Project, on the P75 I bought for $35 at a computer show. However, it's
beeping at me (long beep, motherboard or power supply, so its probably
dead). When I created the Coyote disk, I got the following:

- Firewall
- DHCP Server
- Identd Server

All of this on one floppy (based on kernel 2.2.19). It supports PPPoE as
well.

Seems to me a cheap 486 or Pentium box, a bit of memory, a hub, and two NIC
Cards _might_ be cheaper if you like to trade parts around.

Jason


----- Original Message -----
From: <ddaupert at csc.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 8:38 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Very basic DSL questions


> Sorry to be soooo simple, but this is my first time thru, and I'm not yet
> very network savvy.
> I've recently been informed I can get DSL in my area (SW Fort Worth) thru
> SWBell. I've
> listened to the traffic on this group about August.net closing off to new
> customers due to
> SWBell's biz practices, and that doesn't lessen my anxiety much. Anyways,
> here goes.
>
> SWBell has a "special" for $49.+/month, equipment is "free" and the
> self-installation kit
> is "free," but only for windows. They'll charge me a couple hundred for a
> technician
> installation. Questions: can I just get the self-installation kit, run
> windows in vmware, do
> setup, then switch over to linux and configure? Are there any gotchas I
> need to know about?
>
> I hear people talking about static IPs, but I *think* this would only be
an
> issue if I were
> going to run a web server or mail server or whatever, right? I'm not
> planning on running
> any servers on my system. It seems to me they really sock it to you for
> static ips. I had
> hoped to go thru august.net for isp. I am now an earthlink customer, after
> mindspring
> got into bed with earthlink, after pipeline got bought out by mindspring.
> Earthlink wants
> to charge $67.50/month for dsl plus static ip, and on top of swbell
wanting
> $49.+ plus
> their ip fee -- holy cripes. I guess I should just take my beating without
> complaint, tho;
> for 50 Xs the speed of dial up; let's see, I pay $21/month for dial up, 50
> times that would
> be Yikes! $1000/month. $120 or so sounds like a deal!
>
> dennis
>
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