FiOS/networking question

[jsf]

see below...

On 11/19/06, Dan Jenkins <dan at rastech.com> wrote:
> jsf wrote:
>
> > so, do i need to do any config on the d-link to get it to start PPPoE
> > with Verizon or...
> >
> > By plugging the FiOS into the WAN side of the d-link and then plugging
> > the workstations and the Linksys into the LAN side of the D-Link...
> > each machine will basically be 'exposed' to the FiOS and make its own,
> > independent PPPoE connection to the FiOS?
> >
> > Sorry to be so clueless...
>
> The only PPPoE connection would be from the DLink to Verizon.

Right, makes sense

> Everything else would be on your internal LAN and would not
> make a direct connect to Verizon, but would go through the DLink's
> NAT.

Right... Now, what I'm concerned about:  How do I get into the config
of the Linksys Router so I don't play host to my neighbor's computers
and war drivers?

>
> Just use YAST to obtain its configuration via DHCP and the SUSE box
> should work.

For some reason, my SuSE 9.1 box no longer plays nice w/my monitor so
I can only interface with it via SSH from one of the other machines...

I'm looking at Yast right now and plum forgot how to get it to obtain
it's config via DHCP... my worry is that once that's set I won't know
how to ssh into it again!


> You might have to reconfigure Apache, if you have the IP hardcoded in there.

No longer worried about Apache, or Postfix, etc.. for now, I'm letting
Media Temple do all that heavy lifting.

> Whether you still want to route Internet traffic to SUSE is unclear to

Well, I'd like, eventually, to have it running on my network and be
able to ssh and VNC into it from inside and outside my home network.

> me. If so, you would
> need to do some port forwarding on the DLink.

Yeah, I'm really going to have to go to school on this stuff.. seems
that, since this D-Link was given to me as an OEM from Verizon I am
unable to update the firmware on it ... but that's the least of my
predicaments at the moment.

I'm really concerned I'm going to lose all contact with the SuSE box ...

J.

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