[TriLUG] PPPoE, adsl connection, RH 7.3

[Steven Blanchard]

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

Steven Blanchard wrote:
> 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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