After many sleepless nights I bring you:

Linux Wired Country Notes

This is an addition to LinuxPPPoENotes

This is not complete, but I will work on it as things progress

Details:

• Region: Auckland
• Flavourrs: Debian, m0n0wall (freeBSD), XP (flatmates...)
• Gear: Wired Country IDL (Network adaptor, goes to antenna), Cisco ATA188 (uplinks to IDL, outputs Ethernet, 2x VoIP phones)

It appears that the IDL will only give out 1 (one) DHCP lease, so if you want to connect a machine you need to power down the gear, connect the machine and power the gear backup to clear the lease table... If you don't power down the gear you wont be able to connect from any machine except that connected at first power up.. took me 3 days to find this out O_o

Powering down the Gear: IDL: just unplug the power ?? ATA188: disconnect ethernet cables (both link and uplink), wait 20 sec, unplug power. (from Cisco 186 user manual - GoogleIt?)

Powering up the Gear:

1. Connect IDL Power
2. Wait a while
3. Conect ATA188 ethernet cables then power.... If ATA188 light keeps flashing for longer than 20sec or so, unplug power for a few seconds
4. check dial tone.
5. Connect via PPPoE (if your computer hasnt already)

M0n0wall config

Note: I am using a Beta release of M0n0wall. There may be some issues with PPPoE in the stable release. This is a breeze, just setup a PPPoE connection in the WAN section of the WebGUI. Enter you user and passwd, leave service name empty. Config your lan, NAT and firewall settings and away you go. I've had some problems with PHP crashing on M0n0wall, but I think this is isolated to my system and not a PPPoE issue.