On Wednesday 10 January 2007 20:32, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, b.n. wrote: > > Buying an hardware router with DHCP will avoid you any hassle. I did > > this way at my parent's home and everything runs perfectly. > > > > Of course I'm talking of a 24/7 connection. > > Probably that's what I want, but how can I know? The handbook doesn't > talk about such things, and I have no experience with ADSL. What > configuring must be done for such setup? More important, what > documentation is there? (And the instructions in the handbook refer to > what kind of setup?)
If you use a router, the usual DHCP configuration (for wired or wireless ethernet) applies. Depending on the router setup, your host might receive only the IP address or other parameters too (DNS, domain name, etc.), so just edit /etc/conf.d/net accordingly. The router is usually configured using a web interface, and is the device that establishes the actual Internet connection (using its WAN port). Of course, the router _does_ have to be configured with the correct ADSL parameters (type of ATM encapsulation, username/password for the PPP session, etc.) and these parameters are (or should be) provided by your ISP. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
