Finishing it

If all is well you now have your Alcatel Speedtouch online together with your gentoo server which now supplies the whole network with internet access!

Now all we need to do is make it all a bit more persistent as a reboot will wipe all that magic…

Now I suppose I could use all those fancy scripts that are present but quite frankly I don’t care – its 3 AM here by now and I simply want this working and finished and I suppose you do as well.

The most simple solution is to slam it all in the local bootup scripts:

File: /etc/conf.d/local.start

# Fire up the ADSL connection 
 pppd call adsl
 # Start the masquerading 
 internet

Now all we need is the DHCP server to come back alive after a reboot:

rc-update add dhcp default

There we go, the whole how-to to get your Alcatel Speedtouch back in action.