[Blackburn] ADSL (again)

Stuart Grimshaw sgrimshaw at plus.net
Tue Aug 26 18:56:00 BST 2003


On Monday 25 Aug 2003 5:27 pm, Konrad Dąbrowski wrote:
> Can anyone tell me how to get an ADSL modem to work? Which should I use?

Check out the hardware reviews at http://www.adslguide.co.uk/ they detail whih 
are compat. with Linux.

> Also, it may be better to use a router, but someone told me that I'd need 2
> IP addresses if I wanted to run a web server- is this true?

Yes, you'll actually need a block of 4, of which only 1 will be usable. Most 
ISP's will provide this though.




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