Re:ADSL CONNECTION

[Jacob L Anawalt <anawaltaj cachevalley com>]

Does this setup fit your situation?

The ISP has given you 1 ip address (dynamic or not) and an external ADSL 
router/modem with 1 phone line connection, 1 ethernet connection, and 
possibly a serial connection for management. There is also documentation 
(or not)  about 10.0.0.0 network addresses.

If it does fit your situation, and all you want to do is make 
connections out through the ADSL device, you need to enable NAT on it, 
get the ip address of it's ethernet port (or assign it to 10.0.0.1) give 
your ethernet card on the linux box an unused address, say 10.0.0.2, and 
 configure it to use 10.0.0.1 as it's gateway. That should do it in a 
nutshell. I use linuxconf to configure my networking, and have used it 
to help people set up similar configuations.


If this doesn't fit your situation, explain what you have been given by 
 the ISP with a little more detail.

Jacob Anawalt