[TriLUG] PPPoE, adsl connection, RH 7.3

[Richard O. Hammer]

> Richard O. Hammer wrote:
> > I've installed RedHat 7.3 on a system which has one network
> > card, and I'm having trouble getting my Roaring Penguin PPPoE
> > connection to the Internet working. 
> > ... it looks to me like perhaps my machine is identifying
> > itself to the earthlink server as 192.168.0.2 instead of as
> > 63.173.123.59, which is probably a mistake.

Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> 
> Try doing, as root (if eth0 is the adsl-network card)
> 
> ifconfig eth0 down
> 
> and try again adsl-start


BINGO!  That makes it go.  Thank you Sinner.

It is really powerful too.  As soon as I did this, and pinged
trilug.org to make sure it worked, Sprint's DSL service went
down in three states!

Thanks to the others giving several pointers in the right
direction.

Rich Hammer



Henryk Kowalski wrote:
>
> The IP address of eth0 is NOT the problem.
> The problem is the default gateway.
> if you run "route -n" or "ip r l" you should get the answer to which device is your default gateway.  The default gateway is the route out to the 'net.
> For pppoe the gateway needs to be ppp0 (or ppp1...)


"M. Mueller" wrote:
> 
> PPP wants to assign the dynamic IP but it finds a static IP already assigned
> to eth0.
> 


Steven Blanchard wrote:
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network on my redhat 7.0 box doing adsl:
> NETWORKING="yes"
> HOSTNAME="phoenix"
> GATEWAY=""
> GATEWAYDEV=""