Anyone familiar with BellSouth DSL setup?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Sat Jul 8 20:57:40 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 12:54 -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> On 07/03/2006 10:48:03 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> > I'm playing one heckuva phone tag with BellSouth
> > concerning setup of my
> > static IP account and the settings I need for my machine.
> > I'm connecting
> > just fine with DHCP, so it works. I want to run apache and
> > my own
> > webpages from the machine connected to the DSL modem. If
> > anyone would
> > assist, I'd like to confer off list. I need for my machine
> > to appear to
> > the net, not the modem. They have support for Macs, but
> > not linux... go
> > figure. Ric
> 
> Ric - Not that I want to complicate your life, but have you  
> considered changing isp's??? While I love hearing that Bell  
> South has started supporting Mac, I don't hear from other  
> mailing lists good things concerning Bell South with  
> respect to non-standard residential support

I've gotten some great support from this list, it seems all I need do is
to set the DSL modem to passthrough and have my machine ready to pick up
the IP address... now it just takes the guts to do so... a measure of
Fear and Trepidation on my part! Ric





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