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Date:	Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:56:02 -0700
From:	"Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." <drjuice@ieee.org >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Installing DSL

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Hi, Jack - Sorry, where I am now, I don't have access to anything but
Winders. Maybe somebody at their own home can tell you what they've got
in their setup file. v

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\ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
0 Email: drjuice@ieee.org
Oo "There is always hope."
My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.gif
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------
GAT/d+(--) s++ a+++ C+++ UB++ UL++ US++ P+ L+ !e W+++
!N !o !K w+ O+ !M V PS+ PE- T++ PGPP t- 5 X R+++
tv+ b++++ DI+ D---G e+++ h+ r x?
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jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:

>In <4906E638.1080608@ieee.org>, on 10/28/2008
> at 03:15 AM, "Virginia R. Hetrick, Ph.D." said:
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>>Hi, Jack -
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>>The gateway is always the same because it's the dotted decimal in the
>>modem that connects you to the outside world. It will normally be
>>192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 or something similar. To make life not
>>confusing and because the Netgear hub/router has to have a gateway, I
>>always make the Netgear device 192.168.252.1 so I can easily
>>differentiate what I'm working with. The issue is not what it is but
>>that it is unique in some form or fashion and that the devices connected
>>to it are either set with it specified correctly or automatically detect
>>the gateway. They can do this even it it's on the high end of the
>>octet, third in my case, (or anywhere else, for that matter).
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>Thnk you Virginia. the ATT gateway is 192.168.1.254.
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>Do I need an os/2 file to make DSL work?
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>Many years ago Gary Wong said he was using this setup.cmd file in
>mptn\bin:
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>route -fh
>arp -f
>ifconfig 1o 127.0.0.1
>REM ifconfig lan 0
>REM ifconfig lan 1
>REM ifconfig lan 2
>REM ifconfig lan 3
>REM ifconfig lan 4
>REM ifconfig lan 5
>REM ifconfig lan 6
>REM ifconfig lan 7
>dhcpstrt -i lan0 -d 45
>REM if config s10
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>The file supposedly goes in tcp/ip notebook settings which I can't find.
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>Please clarify this for me.
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>Jack
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>>Practically nobody I know except the network dudes at a place with about
>>300 64-port routers where I used to be the *x sysadmin uses the high end
>>of things because they remember about multicast on the fourth octet at
>>255 which has no relevance to anything in this discussion. When I
>>talked to those network admins, they said they used the high end because
>>nobody else did. So, the network dudes knew fersure they didn't have
>>any conflicts.
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>>--
>>\ / Virginia R. Hetrick, here in sunny California
>>0 Email: drjuice@ieee.org
>>Oo "There is always hope."
>>My fave: http://www.washington.edu/cambots/camera1_l.gif
>>-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------
>>GAT/d+(--) s++ a+++ C+++ UB++ UL++ US++ P+ L+ !e W+++
>>!N !o !K w+ O+ !M V PS+ PE- T++ PGPP t- 5 X R+++
>>tv+ b++++ DI+ D---G e+++ h+ r x?
>>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK-------
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>>jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net wrote:
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>>>In <20081023150613-45205-8@scoug.com>, on 10/23/2008
>>> at 03:06 PM, "Robert Blair" said:
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>>>>** Reply to message from jack.huffman@worldnet.att.net on Thu, 23 Oct
>>>>2008 13:03:33 -0700
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>>>>>I am finally going to install ATT DSL to replace dial-up .
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>>>>>I know that I need a 10T nic card to which the 2Wire Company gateway/modem must
>>>>>be connected.
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>>>>It depends on the connection equipment you get from your provider. DSL
>>>>usually is 10 but any nic that supports 10 will work. I have a 10/100
>>>>nic on my DSL.
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>>>>The router they supply may be 10/100 so that the internal LAN may use 100
>>>>while the internet side may use 10.
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>>>>>The gateway has 4 ports for local internet so I assume that
>>>>>makes it a 4 port router.
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>>>>Sounds correct to me.
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>>>>>My problem is that I have only the Windows 3.1 that came with OS/2 Warp on
>>>>>my machine and the instruction diskette that comes with the ATT DSL kit
>>>>>requires at least Win 2000.
>>>>>
>>>>>Can I take the installation diskette to a Win machine and install DSL. I
>>>>>know it is possible to remove the files created by the installation
>>>>>instruction diskette after the installation is complete.
>>>>>
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>>>>Usually you do not need to run the windows setup program. Most routers
>>>>can be setup with a browser, you need to look at the documentation and
>>>>find what the IP address is used by the router.
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>>>I found the instructrions for setting up the modem and the gateway. It is
>>>a printed ISP number in a printed folder which leads me to wonder if all
>>>users have the same ISP number. Is that the case?
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>>>>>How do I set up OS2 for DSL? Many yeara ago Gary Wong said he was using
>>>>>this setup.cmd file in mptn\bin:
>>>>>
>>>>>route -fh
>>>>>arp -f
>>>>>ifconfig 1o 127.0.0.1
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 0
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 1
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 2
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 3
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 4
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 5
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 6
>>>>>REM ifconfig lan 7
>>>>>dhcpstrt -i lan0 -d 45
>>>>>REM if config s10
>>>>>
>>>>>The file supposedly goes in tcp/ip notebook settings.
>>>>>
>>>>>Will this still work?
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>>>>It may.
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>>>What does the file do? Can you give me some reason or reasons why it
>>>won't work?
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>>>>Open the 'tcpip configuration (local)' settings notebook and setup it up
>>>>for your machine.
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>>>The only folder I see is TCP/IP ^ Internet (LAN). I don'tsee the folder
>>>you specified.
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>>>I assume I will have to make an icon that will start DSL. What
>>>file/program should it access?
>>>
>>>Sorry to be so stupid.
>>>
>>>Jack
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