[TriLUG] PPPoE for DSL under Suse 7 Pro

[Sinner from the Prairy]

>From: "Dr. Richard W. Tibbs" <rtibbs at ipass.net>

>Hello.

Hello

>I have a Suse 7. Pro installation and everything works fine
>(monitor, X, disks, modem) except my (2) Linksys 10/100TX ethernet is 
>difficult to set up with PPPOE.

I have a Mandrake 8.1 and it works great with PPPoE . It also worked great 
with PPPoE with 7.0, 7.02 and 8.0)

>I have successfully installed the tulip modules and interfaces
>eth0 and eth1 are up. I would like to make eth1 work over my DSL
>connection (Bellsouth). Bellsouth's
>"support" for linux amounts to some flaky scripts that don't work.

I use BellSouth DSL and I have been using PPPoE instead of their scritps for 
more than a year now.

>Having exhausted the how-to's globally on PPPOE, and having paid good money 
>for the Suse Press book
>"The Suse Linux Network", I haven't been able to bring up pppoe.

>Their
>flagship scripts "adsl-start" etc. aren't even on my system. (Grrr.)
>Has anyone done this with Bellsouth's DSL service? I have an Alcatel
>SPeed-touch DSL modem (ethernet interface -- everything works fine from a 
>Win2K box).

How I did it, by Sinner

When I used Madnarke 7.0, PPPoE was "primitive" and experimental. This means 
that RPM packages, at best, didn't work.

So I went to the Roaring Penguin website www.rp-pppoe.org IIRC , got the tar 
ball, read the reADME and the directions on their website, compiled it, run 
"adsl-setup", entered the values, run "adsl-start" and I was up and running.

Some hints:

Somehow, some rp-pppoe versions require you to bring down the eth device 
before running PPPoE. So, if you use "eth1" (I use eht0) for ADSL, I crated 
a small script that did:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig eth1 down
adsl-start

Hope this helps.


If you ahve further questions, please ask.



Salut,
Sinner

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