ip addresses

[evansmb]

not sure if this is the best place for the
question, but here it goes. I will be getting dsl the next day or two. i was waning to run a small server using redhat linux. in order to use linux i have user purchase a router. how here is the question. tell me if i have this straight. when i dial up the router will be assigned the ip? and the router will probably have to use nat for my computer to get access to the internet, right? so wouldn't the nat cause problem accessing the server? so does that mean i need to get two IPs from my ISP?

Thanks

[Gecko68]

hrm......I'm not sure if you need 2 ip's or not. or even a router, for that matter.

I just got DSL last week, and this is what i did.

1) phone company sets everything up as far as activating circuit/ username/pw / and sends me my modem.

2) I set up a linux box with 2 nics. (redhat 7.1) Only set the address on 1 of them (internal IP)
3) downloaded the Roaring Penguin PPPoE rpm, went through it's configuration (read its readme to find out how to set up the NIC w/external address)

4) set the other computers in my LAN to look at the private IP NIC on the linux box as the gateway. set the gateway of that NIC as the other nic. the other NIC get's it's IP via PPPoE/dhcp. voila!

you should not need 2 IP's from your isp.

try a google search for 'linux dsl' and you'll find ton's of "how i did this" from people. I strongly recommend the Roaring Penguin pppoe client though. it's slick as snot.