Re: VOIP with a linksys PAP2

[THUFIR HAWAT <hawat thufir gmail com>]

On 6/12/05, THUFIR HAWAT <hawat thufir gmail com> wrote:
> On 6/12/05, Michael A. Peters <mpeters mac com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 19:19 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > in terms of hardware, do I need a crossover cable?
> >
> > I don't know - I would suspect yes, but I don't know.
> > If you do, then a hub would also work (as well as allowing other boxes
> > to use your linux box as a gateway)
> >
> > Some linksys equipment is autosensing now and doesn't matter what cable
> > you use.
> 
> I have the internet connection (802.11b network adapter) plugged into
> eth0.  a hub is plugged into eth1.  the PAP2 is plugged into the hub,
> and a telephone into the hub.
> 
> on boot I got a message about lost packets, but it went by too fast.
> I've installed firestarter.  I need to set up dhcp, perhaps.  how do I
> ping, or ipconfig the hub?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Thufir
> 


[root localhost thufir]#
[root localhost thufir]# yum list '*dhcp*'
Setting up Repos
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
http://fedora-mirror.dkuug.dk/linux/core/updates/3/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:
[Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base      : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 847/847
Installed Packages
dhcp.i386                                7:3.0.1-42_FC3         installed
dhcpv6_client.i386                       0.10-11_FC3            installed
Available Packages
dhcp-debuginfo.i386                      7:3.0.1-42_FC3         updates-released
dhcp-devel.i386                          7:3.0.1-42_FC3         updates-released
dhcpv6.i386                              0.10-11_FC3            updates-released
dhcpv6-debuginfo.i386                    0.10-11_FC3            updates-released
[root localhost thufir]#

so, I have all the software and hardware, now it's just a matter of
configuration, ipconfig and whatnot?


-Thufir