I got set up yesterday with Verizon DSL. I had to boot into
windows to do the account activation, and their tech support
walked me through it. Once the connection was up, I added a
hub and a second computer (with XP - it's not mine, I swear)
opened a browser and began surfing.
Setting up DSL on SuSE 8.2 was pretty easy, considering I
don't really know what I'm doing. Yast setup for a network
card and dsl went smoothly. I only had to make one file edit,
to designate eth0 in pppoe.conf, rebooted the computer and
then could surf, with download speeds up to 1.7M/s.
I even got my firewall working with the new connection, but
two things seems to have changed. SuSEfirewall2 was set not to
accept pings, and it looks like it's still set that way, but
Gibson Research's port scanning utility can ping me. The other
thing is that before, I had to manually enter commands
(iptables) to drop packets to port 119 to put it into
"stealth" mode. Now, I don't have to do that, as it already
appears stealthed. Can anyone explain either of these phenomena?
Greg
