bs_texas
01-03-2004, 01:57 AM
i posted this over at the smoothwall forum, but thought I'd throw it in here also, just in case:
I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get my brand new DSL modem to talk to Smoothwall. It's a ZyXEL 645ME-A1 from Sprint.
I just got dsl today and got my sprint/earthlink stuff set up by connecting my dsl modem directly to my W2K machine and runnning the setup program from their CD. That basically just initializes the modem and setup my username and password. The modem can be set up by telneting into it. Apparently their setup CD is a front end that sets up part of the info that can be setup with telneting.
So, the modem is set up for PPPoE and has my username and password in it.
When I pull the cat5 out of the w2k machine and stick it in the red nic on my smoothwall machine, I can't seem to figure out how to get it going.
From another thread I discovered that PPPoE in smoothwall is an 'option' in the 'ppp settings' page. So, I set the interface to PPPoE. Went back to the Control page and clicked on 'Connect'. The DSL light is on on the modem and the LAN(100) link light flashes but there is never any 'Activity' light. Smoothwall blinks a couple of times and said it's 'dialing' (for some goofy reason) and then eventually returns to 'PPPoE idle' status. I went directly into smoothwall with a 'setup' login and futzed around some in there also, but no joy. I did set the type to Red + Green (or was it Green + Red).
I tried re-initializing the modem and removed my username and password and then on the 'ppp settings' page I added them to the 'Authentication' section. That didn't work either. I toggled 'Bridge' in the modem and tried it on and off, that didn't seem to do anything.
I don't where to go from here. I'd sure like to get the DSL to go through my Smoothwall and simply replace my 56k modem.
here's the setup I am trying to do:
---dsl line---dsl modem---red nic-smoothwall-green nic---linksys switch---pc's
here's the setup I am on now, since it's my only option currently:
---dsl line---dsl modem---nic on w2k
Can somebody give me a little guidance here or point me to a simple smoothwall step-by-step setup howto or something? There doesn't seem to be much in the doc's, at least that I could find so far.
Thanks...
Man.. I can feel the viruses and worms jumping on my w2k machine... ;)
I am having a heck of a time trying to figure out how to get my brand new DSL modem to talk to Smoothwall. It's a ZyXEL 645ME-A1 from Sprint.
I just got dsl today and got my sprint/earthlink stuff set up by connecting my dsl modem directly to my W2K machine and runnning the setup program from their CD. That basically just initializes the modem and setup my username and password. The modem can be set up by telneting into it. Apparently their setup CD is a front end that sets up part of the info that can be setup with telneting.
So, the modem is set up for PPPoE and has my username and password in it.
When I pull the cat5 out of the w2k machine and stick it in the red nic on my smoothwall machine, I can't seem to figure out how to get it going.
From another thread I discovered that PPPoE in smoothwall is an 'option' in the 'ppp settings' page. So, I set the interface to PPPoE. Went back to the Control page and clicked on 'Connect'. The DSL light is on on the modem and the LAN(100) link light flashes but there is never any 'Activity' light. Smoothwall blinks a couple of times and said it's 'dialing' (for some goofy reason) and then eventually returns to 'PPPoE idle' status. I went directly into smoothwall with a 'setup' login and futzed around some in there also, but no joy. I did set the type to Red + Green (or was it Green + Red).
I tried re-initializing the modem and removed my username and password and then on the 'ppp settings' page I added them to the 'Authentication' section. That didn't work either. I toggled 'Bridge' in the modem and tried it on and off, that didn't seem to do anything.
I don't where to go from here. I'd sure like to get the DSL to go through my Smoothwall and simply replace my 56k modem.
here's the setup I am trying to do:
---dsl line---dsl modem---red nic-smoothwall-green nic---linksys switch---pc's
here's the setup I am on now, since it's my only option currently:
---dsl line---dsl modem---nic on w2k
Can somebody give me a little guidance here or point me to a simple smoothwall step-by-step setup howto or something? There doesn't seem to be much in the doc's, at least that I could find so far.
Thanks...
Man.. I can feel the viruses and worms jumping on my w2k machine... ;)