[Gloucs] Telewest and Smoothwall

Tim Ballam gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
Wed Aug 6 16:03:00 2003


Matthew

you will have to tell telewest that you want to add a new MAC address to
your connection, or you won't get assigned a IP address.......


Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [mailto:matthew@truthisfreedom.org.uk]
Sent: 06 August 2003 16:00
To: gloucs@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Telewest and Smoothwall


On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:32, Guy Edwards wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:33, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> [snip]
> > back, however I've got a telewest beige box USB modem and I'm guessing
> > it uses different drivers to the Alcatel one.
> 
> Doesn't it (the Telewest box) have a RJ45 port just above the USB port? 
> What about running a line from that to a (red interface) network card 
> on your smoothwall box?
> 
> I know it sidesteps the question you asked but.....

Sounds good to me, can't play anymore coz the bugger's locked his door and
gone out, but I've got a spare NIC round here somewhere!

Reckon this might be the easiest bet, cheers!

Matt

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