[ale] PPPOE (Bellsouth)

[Chris Fowler]

I've had this problem with Telocity DSL.  It appeared that I would run pump
and after some time it was possible for the address to disappear.  I would
kill pump then execute it again.  I would get an adress back.  I just added
the IP settings in the network config files.  But,  I have static IP.  You
do not.

My message to everyone on this list.
DO NOT settle for pppoe
DO NOT settle for dynamic IP's


-----Original Message-----
From: David Corbin [mailto:dcorbin at imperitek.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 12:27 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] PPPOE (Bellsouth)


I'm trying to get Bellsouth FastAccess DSL up an running.

I have a Debian system with the Roaring Penguin pppoe client.  I have an
ethernet based ADSL modem.

It appears to me (and I've found it say this in at least one place, you
need to have an "IP-less" ethernet connetion going first).

I do "ifconfig eth1" and it responds:
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B0:00:B2:43
          inet addr:24.53.117.149  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6260378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2730933 errors:1497 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1497
          collisions:11140 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf8e0

But if I do an "ifconfig" immediately after that, eth1 is listed.  If I
do one 3 seconds later, it's gone.

I *think* this may be contrinbuting to my problems getting DSL up.

Any ideas?


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