SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate config not found

2007-07-15 Thread Lanny Marcus 
Message: 23
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:11:59 -0400
From: Dan Halbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate 
config  not found
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I am frustrated. This is a dual boot box, Win XP (Spanish) and CentOS
4.4.  The phone company man came today and installed ADSL to the WinXP
snip

Dan wrote: If you have a router, then the ADSL connection you have is
handled by the router, and is invisible to you, on the LAN side of the
snip

Thank you! I was busy and gone most of the day yesterday and didn't
touch the box after about 7 A.M. Early this morning, I came in here and
in two (2) minutes, the box was online in Linux. :-)

The problem was that I'd seen in System Tools  Internet Configuration
Wizard (internet-druid) and I set up an xDSL connection ppp0, which was
not necessary, as you wrote, because the ADSL Router the phone company
man brought does the log in. 

After I deleted the ppp0, I set up eth0 again, to get my IP from the ISP
via DHCP and I put in the 2 IP numbers for their DNS servers, restarted
the Network and I am online!  :-)

I knew this was something extremely simple, but it was Friday the 13th
and to use Johnny's phrase, I had a cubic butt load of frustration. :-)

This will hopefully make it easier for me to get Devil-Linux configured,
for my Firewall/Router box.

Walt Reed: I get the Mailing List Digest, which will come in about 90
minutes, but I looked at the archives this morning and I also saw your
post, which is much appreciated. I am going to try to use Devil-Linux
and if I can't get that working, I will use IPCop, for my
Firewall/Router.

Thanks to both of you for replying to me and to everyone who
participates in this great mailing list!  Lanny


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Re: SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate config not found

2007-07-15 Thread Lanny Marcus 
Message: 26
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:59:09 -0400
From: Dan Halbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SOLVED:  Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration,   ppp0
can't   activate   config  not found
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Great! By the way, you should not even need to specify the DNS
servers. 
In the DHCP info your router gives your machine, it will probably list 
itself as the DNS server. (DHCP does not return just an IP address but 
also a bunch of other info such as subnet mask and DNS servers.)

Yes. When I checked the network configuration for eth0, the 2 IP
addresses for their DNS servers that I'd entered, had been changed, to
192.168.1.1, the IP of the ADSL Router.

The router just forwards DNS requests it gets on to the real DNS
servers (it found out those when it itself connected to the ISP).. So
don't specify the DNS servers yourself and then you won't have to do
anything if the ISP's DNS serves change.

That works. I will change that in the other boxes (also dual boot),
after I have the Firewall/Router box up and running. 

When I did ifconfig -ait came back with inet addr 192.168.1.10
Bcast 192.168.1.255 and Mask 255.255.255.0

When I did nslookup 192.168.1.10it came back with 
server 192.168.1.1 Address 192.168.1.1#53 and
** Server can't find 10.1.168.192.in.addr.arpa NXDOMAIN

I downloaded the lastest versions of Devil-Linux and IPCop this
morning. I think I will try IPCop first, because it can be headless
and has a lot of documentation and other features I like. Devil-Linux
does not require a hard drive, which I believe would be better for
security.


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