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Skriven 2004-07-23 20:06:04 av Mike Luther (1:117/3001.0)
Ärende: Sprint ADSL setup info? 
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To anyone who may know and can help?

One of the sites I nursemaid has suddenly decided to go get Sprint to put in
'DSL for them.  OK, out comes the line mule and installs one each Sprint 'DSL
modem and a filter that produces a voice line on that drop.  This is about a
hundred US miles from me and I'm going to have to either be able to talk people
through this LD or have to go there.  If I go there, I'd better know what to
expect and how to do things before that trip, grin!


Now .. all of my experience with broadband is in the cable modem game. Never
seen one of these 'DSL modems before.  But I'm guessing that it has to be much
the same as a cable modem.  Now it is also obvious to me that there is going to
have to be a fixed IP address come out of this somehow, just like in cable
modem stuff, to really make any professional use of this. While I do know how
to get OS/2's DHCP to connect to get in to the COX operation with that, I also
know how much misery getting the address whomped every so often is.  And that
brings to mind what interface characteristics are going to exist there .. such
as the fixed address, the masking etc.


OK .. so I was told today that there was a Sprint guru who would 'assist' the
folks in setting up this honest 'DSL modem, whatever it is, and they would
furnish 'software' to do that.  Yeah, what, like Windows whatever? Well we've
heard about that stuff here in the echo, but that is likely how the interface
with Sprint will start.


My advice, so far, to the crowd of sheep, is that they had better plan on at
least a broadband router or switch, something with a firewall capability and in
this case it really needs to be able to be set up with at least Telnet,or I
*HOPE* with an RS-232 line into it.  I chose my ZyXel broadband router that way
for just exactly the purpose and after reading the book a bit, via the RS-232
modem port and ZOC on a 'standard' comm port deal, away it went. I've never
looked back and can manage it with TelNet also if needed.  All COX ever did
here was to give me the neighborhood router address and masking data, plus the
needed domain server and backup server deal and away we went,either DHCP or
fixed address later, via the either a basic MCP2 box with all the fixes, or
later the ZyXel.


As well, having a standardized interface between the router and the 'DSL modem
sure has to be the way to go, as opposed to just hooking up the single desired
OS/2 box on the facility LAN to that modem and firing up either DHCP or using
fixed addressing to what Sprint offers.  Not firing up NETBIOS over TCP/IP is
sure the way I want to do this, based on previous bitter experience about what
can be done with an OS/2 box that thinks it normally can be seen via TCP/IP as
in default Windows worlds!


Any advice and comments?

Thanks!


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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