[ale] Telocity help?

[James Kinney]

So Telocity uses an external router? Ah ha! My Earthlink SDSL uses a
router with a real static IP while my Bellsouth ADSL uses a bridged DHCP.
However, 3 clients of mine have Bellsouth and they use PPPOE through the
same alcatel box I use. 

James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244             \.___________________________./

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Michael Smith wrote:

> Actually, with Telocity, you are not using PPPOE.  You have a static IP but
> you use DHCP.  I had the same problem Jason had.  I ended up unplugging and
> replugging my Telocity Gateway and everything worked fine.  Try opening up a
> web browser and go to the 10.*.*.* address after unplugging and replugging.
> Also, make sure you are using the right ip address.  They had my ip as
> *.*.*.1 and I actually had to set my gateway on my Linux machine to *.*.*.2.
> If all else fails, I would boot into windows, run ipconfig /all and set my
> Linux gateway to the same gateway and then set the interface to DHCP.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Kinney [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:45 PM
> To: Jason
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Telocity help?
> 
> 
> You can't setup DHCP directly on a DSL connection. It uses a process
> called PPPOE (PPP over ethernet)
> 
> Get roaring penguin's PPPOE package (there is an rpm for it) install, run
> the configuration stuff and it will make the connection. 
> 
> There is also pppoe stuff in the new 2.4.x kernels. You will need the new
> pppd stuff (v 2.4 I think). It is listed in the Documentations/Changes
> file of the kernel sources.
> 
> James P. Kinney III   \Changing the mobile computing world/
> President and COO      \          one Linux user         /
> Local Net Solutions,LLC \           at a time.          /
> 770-493-8244             \.___________________________./
> 
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Jason wrote:
> 
> > Hi all -- I hope someone can help me out with a problem.
> > 
> > I'm running a redhat 6.2 machine at home on a new Telocity DSL connection.
> > When I hook up my Windows 98 PC, it connects fine with DHCP.  Here's what
> > Linux does:
> > 
> > I tried setting up eth0 with DHCP, as recommended -- it just fails, and
> > I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this. When I set up eth0
> > statically using the netmask 255.0.0.0, I can connect fine but can't see
> > remote hosts with 64.*.*.* IP addresses.  Telocity's documentation and
> > tech support says I need to use the netmask 255.255.255.252.  When I
> > change the netmask to this, I can't connect at all.
> > 
> > So what I need is either: a) figure out how to get DHCP to work properly,
> > or b) figure out what settings I need to change to get connected
> > statically with the right netmask.  Telocity's tech support has left me
> > hanging, and clearly I'm not a network expert.  If anyone can help me out
> > with a solution to either I'd be most grateful.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Jason Puckett  / MisterRain at intemperance.net  / www.intemperance.net
> > 	"I'm a fraud.  A poor, lazy, sexy fraud."  -- Bender
> >  (If mail to intemperance.net fails, use misterrain at telocity.com)
> > 
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