[TriLUG] PPPoE, adsl connection, RH 7.3

[Steven Blanchard]

I think that you are right to be suspicious, because the default route 
determines where net bound packets will go, is there a gateway set up on 
eth0? that might be the cause of your troubles.

~Steven Blanchard

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.  I'm trying to connect to
> my DSL service with Sprint/Earthlink.  Before, when I had
> RedHat 7.0 running on the same system, the adsl software
> worked fine.  But there seems to be something new about 7.3
> which is not working.
> 
> When I failed to get the connection going with the packages
> included with 7.3, I followed advice at
> <http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe> and downloaded and
> installed a new-old version, rp-pppoe-3.4-1.i386.rpm .  But it
> is neither better nor worse, I don't think it changed
> anything.
> 
> Anyhow, here are the symptoms:
> 
> adsl-setup runs fine and congratulates me on my success.
> 
> adsl-start seems to succeed.
> 
> After running adsl-start, ifconfig shows a connection
>   ppp0  Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
>         inet adr:63.173.123.59 P-t-P:63.173.123.1
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>         UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492
> Metric:1
>         ...
> 
> 63.173.123.59 is the IP dynamically assigned by earthlink.
> 
> adsl-status says the link is up and running on interface ppp0
> 
> tail /var/log/messages shows these messages (among others):
>   pppd[]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3
>   pppd[]: PPP session is 8923
>   pppd[]: Remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit
> 176
>   pppd[]: not replacing existing default route to eth0
> [192.168.0.2]
>     /* I am suspicious of that message ^ there.  192.168.0.2
> is the
>        address I have assigned to this machine for my LAN,
> connecting
>        to a windows box.
>     */
>   pppd[]: local IP address 63.173.123.59
>   pppd[]: remote IP address 63.173.123.1
>   pppd[]: primary DNS address 63.162.197.69
> 
> But I can't do anything with this internet connection.  When I
> try:
> ping trilug.org , it responds
>   ping: unknown host trilug.org
> 
> And when I try ping 63.162.197.69  (the earthlink DNS server)
> it responds
>   PING 63.162.197.69  from 192.168.0.2 : 56 bytes of data
>   From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
>   ...
> 
> 
> So 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.
> 
> But where/how do I fix this?
> 
> Thank you,
> Rich Hammer
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