i tried this with pppoeconf, and for only 1 time did it connect.

basically, i am having more than 1 pppoe servers in my area. my pppoe-discovery 
displays the list of it. Also, I do not have problem connecting to the same 
isp's if i am configuring it for Fedora, RHEL or Centos.

Ratnakar Koli

----- Original Message ----
From: Mahesh T. Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-india-help@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2007 10:08:38 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] ADSL connecting problem on Debian etch.

Ratnakar Koli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I am trying to install Debian for the first time, version is
> etch. While trying setup adsl, using pppoeconf, i dont have problem
> configuring it. But I am not able to authenticate my ISP. Please can
> you help me?

Err... is this problem with the install process, or have you run
pppoeconf _after_ completing installation process and reboot??

Hope you configured things using pppoeconf.

> I have 3 different PPPOE Servers of 3 different ISPs, providint 3
> different access-concentrators, and i can see it when i do a
> pppoe-discovery.
>
> I am able to connect to my desired ISP, if i using fedora (which I am
> currently using) or any other distributions like Ubuntu or Open Suse.
>
> In fact, it simply tries to connect to the PPPOE servers randomly,
> while I am using Ubuntu or SuSe. With fedora I do not have any
> problem.
>
> Debian, I've noticed tries to connect on the 1st ISP in
> pppoe-discovery, as that is the MAC I see in the /var/log/messages.
>
> I tried all the ISPs but none work on Debian alone. Please assist.

I am afraid some info is lacking.

Please try reading the comments in /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider

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