On Monday 17 October 2005 19:18, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
I am thinking of going in for the new combo offer of MTNL which bundles broadband w/ local telephony.
From the discussions on the list (which I only skimmed over) what I need
to do is connect the adsl modem to my pc using ethernet and configure the card to use DHCP.
Any gotchas that I need to look out for ? They are providing a D-Link modem.
dhcp is not neccessary. U can disable dhcp and set a static ip (in the same subnet as the modems ip). The modems ip can be set to any suitable ip. The mtnl dns is dicey and goes down sometimes. Use a local dns. One issue will be blocking spam at the mtnl server. Downloading and filtering is pointless. Remember to change the default passwords in the modem and at http:\register.mtnl.net.in
rgds jtd
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
One issue will be blocking spam at the mtnl server. Downloading and filtering is pointless.
Could you expand on this? What is the spam? Which email account will it affect? Are you refering to unwanted attempts by outsiders to attack the system or get in? :)
Regards,
Rony.
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
On Monday 17 October 2005 19:18, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote:
From the discussions on the list (which I only skimmed over) what I need
to do is connect the adsl modem to my pc using ethernet and configure the card to use DHCP.
Any gotchas that I need to look out for ? They are providing a D-Link modem.
dhcp is not neccessary. U can disable dhcp and set a static ip (in the same subnet as the modems ip). The modems ip can be set to any suitable ip.
Okay this is shaky ground for me. Can you please elaborate _with_ some numerical examples please ?
Any reasons not to go for dhcp ?
The mtnl dns is dicey and goes down sometimes. Use a local dns. One issue will be blocking spam at the mtnl server. Downloading and filtering is pointless.
So mtnl also gives you an email ID too.
Remember to change the default passwords in the modem and at http:\register.mtnl.net.in
yes, will do that.
rgds jtd
regards,
Sharukh.
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