I have ADSL from BellSouth and they haven't changed my
IP address in months. I've rebooted the server a few times
(or rather, Jackson EMC has rebooted it for me :) I copied
the settings from my windows box when the guy first set it
up and i've used my linux box as a gateway for my internal
network eversince. the connection gets a little wonky
everynow and then, though. the speed starts to go down drastically.
i haven't figured out if it's the ADSL modem, my old ethernet card
or something at their end, but restarting networking on the gateway
fixes it. and since linux has a properly written tcp/ip stack,
you can restart networking through a telnet connection and not
get dropped while you do it. it's pretty sweet.
i've used the standard redhat 6.0 dhcp client and it works fine.
i set it up through the control panel, but here is
my ifcfg-eth1: (eth0 is reserved for my internal network)
DEVICE="eth1"
IPADDR=""
NETMASK=""
ONBOOT="yes"
BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
IPXNETNUM_802_2=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_2="no"
IPXNETNUM_802_3=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_3="no"
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=""
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no"
IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no"
IPXNETNUM_SNAP=""
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no"
IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no"
USERCTL=no
i can give you more info on my system offlist if you would like.
- joshy
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