Quote Originally Posted by metallica22
my ADSL company has me configered to connect in bridged mode.
This is my situation + I have simple Ethernet modem, w/o router. Conection is a bit tricky, but - as you can see - possible.

root@box:~# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:8D:66:BA:EE
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1312 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1051891 (1.0 MiB) TX bytes:218086 (212.9 KiB)
Interrupt:11

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1100 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1100 (1.0 KiB)

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:62.108.117.183 P-t-P:217.26.64.4 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1400 Metric:1
RX packets:1151 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1281 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:1012579 (988.8 KiB) TX bytes:184504 (180.1 KiB)

Sometimes you must put nodhcp in boot/grub/menu.lst.