A New Toy

[computers]

My ADSL modem has arrived. Predictably, installation is trivial on Windows, but that's not geeky enough, so I must get it working for my Linux network.

This little machine is pretty neat, actually: it came to me from my ISP preconfigured with my username and password, and it makes the PPPoE connection by itself as soon as you turn it on. As well, it has a DHCP server so you can plug it into a hub and all your machines can get IP addresses from it. Obviously, it must also do masquerading so all those machines can talk to the internet. Finally, it has a web server built into it, where you can configure the modem by editing HTML forms. Nifty.

Updated Jan. 29 9:00PM: Woohoooo!! It's working! ... I'm starving. Must eat now.