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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> several of our friends want to switch to broadband and 
> one of them is running BL3 which we set up.

Make sure you get a broadband router that connects via
ethernet (not USB).  Then it is simply a matter of 
establishing an ethernet connection between the router 
and your computer (insmod, ifconfig, etc.).

Many ADSL routers have a DHCP server, so you can set the 
address for your computer by doing udhcpc.  Alternatively, 
you can use ifconfig to set a static address (if you know
the address of the ADSL router).  For example, if the
address of the router is 192.168.0.1, you can do:
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ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2
ping 192.168.0.1
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In order to get internet access via an ADSL router (or any
other internet gateway), you need to set a default route.  
What this does is route all non-local traffic to the specified
address (i.e. the ADSL router).
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route add default gw 192.168.0.1
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Cheers,
Steven