[ale] BellSouth DSL setup

[Geoffrey]

Mills, John M. wrote:
> Jim -
> 
> I used a MsWin box to set up the BS modem and start up a friend's account.
> Thereafter you can connect anything that eats DHCP, I think. Their installer
> creates a new directory with a moderately large set of files: docs,
> junkware, etc; but none of this is needed for normal operations. In my case
> I also wanted to know IPs for the BS nameservers. BS' phone droids
> ultimately told me the IPs, but not without my insisting that I _really_
> needed to know them.

Yeah, they guard that info like it's gold.  I just told them when they 
got there that I was installing a Linux box.  The guy asked me if it 
could do pppoe.  They wouldn't touch it, but I wouldn't let them go 
until I got my laptop to connect first.

> Another ALEr late last spring or early this summer, kindly provided a link
> to the manufacturer's configuration manual for BS' most commonly supplied
> modem. Fairly straight-forward browser-based configuration, IIRC. (It has a
> decent set of router and firewall functions, but my paranoid heart suspects
> BS can possibly reconfigure it from upstream.) 

Modem doesnt' apply in my case, nothing but a jack that ethernet is 
connected to.

> 
> The thread primarily addressed using a consumer firewall/router behind the
> BS modem and gave helpful suggestions in that regard. Search the mail list
> or write me if you can't turn it up.

That's what I set up my mother-in-law with as well.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey