[ale] BellSouth DSL setup

[Mills, John M.]

Jim -

I used a MsWin box to set up the BS modem and start up a friend's account.
Thereafter you can connect anything that eats DHCP, I think. Their installer
creates a new directory with a moderately large set of files: docs,
junkware, etc; but none of this is needed for normal operations. In my case
I also wanted to know IPs for the BS nameservers. BS' phone droids
ultimately told me the IPs, but not without my insisting that I _really_
needed to know them.

Another ALEr late last spring or early this summer, kindly provided a link
to the manufacturer's configuration manual for BS' most commonly supplied
modem. Fairly straight-forward browser-based configuration, IIRC. (It has a
decent set of router and firewall functions, but my paranoid heart suspects
BS can possibly reconfigure it from upstream.) 

The thread primarily addressed using a consumer firewall/router behind the
BS modem and gave helpful suggestions in that regard. Search the mail list
or write me if you can't turn it up.

Cheers.

 - JMM

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
To: ale at ale.org
Philips
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:57 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: [ale] BellSouth DSL setup

Since Speedfactory dumped newsgroups and I dumped them, I'm now on 
BellSouth. How do you get them working on Linux? I tried the setup on 
rp-pppoe and it doesn't get me connected. Do they run DHCP? If anybody 
here has an idea, help is greatly appreciated.

By the way, Speakeasy told me they could not sign me up for DSL because 
of something BellSouth is doing. I was disappointed. I really wanted to 
go with them.

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