ethernet to dialup transition

[WipeOut]

Ben Vitale wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'll be losing my broadband connection for about a week soon, and I'll 
> need to use an external modem and Earthlink dialup to access the 'net 
> - obviously not a 24/7 connection.  Two related questions:
>
> 1) Easiest way to "prepare" FC1 for the transition from LAN to dialup? 
> Last time I had an ethernet outage, GNOME was very unhappy and became 
> almost unusable.  Keep in mind I'll be coming back to the ethernet 
> soon after, so I don't want to lose that configuration..
>
> 2) Best way to configure a dialup connection in FC1?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ben
>
>
Just a thought, if you have an old PC available why not setup 
smoothwall, it takes about 5 min to get installed and setup and works well..

Later..