borrowing a friend's dsl connection

I'm housesitting for friends who are out of the country for a month.
Trouble is, I don't want to use their Window setup but do need to
access the Internet with their DSL connection. I know it's a DHCP
setup because my original strategy was simply copy the IP info.

I didn't record the name of the provider (possibly SBIC? / San
Francisco).

All help is greatly appreciated.

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Tyrone <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm housesitting for friends who are out of the country for a month.
> Trouble is, I don't want to use their Window setup but do need to
> access the Internet with their DSL connection. I know it's a DHCP
> setup because my original strategy was simply copy the IP info.

> I didn't record the name of the provider (possibly SBIC? / San
> Francisco).

A recent Knoppix .iso burned on a CD should be all you need,
hopefully you have your friends permissions to do so.

http://www.knoppix.net/

Good luck

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:47:12 -0800, Tyrone wrote:

> I'm housesitting for friends who are out of the country for a month.
> Trouble is, I don't want to use their Window setup but do need to
> access the Internet with their DSL connection. I know it's a DHCP
> setup because my original strategy was simply copy the IP info.
>
> I didn't record the name of the provider (possibly SBIC? / San
> Francisco).
>
> All help is greatly appreciated.

If it is really a DHCP setup, you won't need to know the current IP or who
the ISP is. You configure your PC to pick up a DHCP address on boot and
that's that. I do this with my laptop when I use internet connections away
from my home.

Now, if your friend's internet service is PPPOE or such, you'll need a
logon name and password. It could even go so far as your needing to
emulate a MAC address.

As someone else noted, I hope you have their permission. You could cause
them quite a few problems if inappropriate internet stuff was traced back
to their IP address on your account.



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wesley wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:47:12 -0800, Tyrone wrote:
>
<snip>
>
> If it is really a DHCP setup, you won't need to know the current IP or who
> the ISP is. You configure your PC to pick up a DHCP address on boot and
> that's that. I do this with my laptop when I use internet connections away
> from my home.
>
> Now, if your friend's internet service is PPPOE or such, you'll need a
> logon name and password. It could even go so far as your needing to
> emulate a MAC address.
>
> As someone else noted, I hope you have their permission. You could cause
> them quite a few problems if inappropriate internet stuff was traced back
> to their IP address on your account.

Hi, just trying to go a little further to learn a little more (still new in
the issue)...

AFAIK, many times when you have pppoe, the dsl modem may be delivered by the
ISP provider configured as a "bridge" (at least here), even if it is a
router (like some Siemmens Speadstream/dlink/dslink modems), and you finish
by needing to use an specific "dialing" software (not really dialing, but
emulating for ADSL authentication purposes, softwares like raspppoe for
Windows or, in, Linux, the rp-pppoe program provided by
www.roaringpenguin.com).

My doubt is, conceptually speaking, could it be done that such dsl modem be
reconfigured in "router" mode (provided that it is indeed a router modem)
to deal with the pppoe stuff and use it directly with dhcp?

Regards!

Paulo