[wellylug] TelstraClear cable modem and SME server woes

[Peter Jones]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: andrej at paradise.net.nz [mailto:andrej at paradise.net.nz] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 30 May 2006 9:24 a.m.
> To: Wellington Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [wellylug] TelstraClear cable modem and SME server woes
> 
> 
> Quoting Peter Jones <PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz>:
> 
> 
> > Any suggestions, please?
> 
> With telstra cable and your static IP you definitely don't
> want DHCP on the WAN side.  All you really need to make sure
> is that the static IP is tied to the right interface, that
> the default gateway is the IP of your concentrator, and that 
> your IP-Tables rules reflect the static IP rather than the 
> ppp that you originally had doing the NATing.
> 
> > Peter
> Cheers,
> Andrej
> 
Thanks, 
Initially I did put the static address on the WAN side, and when that didn't
work tried the DHCP option. SME has been reloaded from scratch so I guess
any previous IP tables will have been overwritten