After months of agony, I have found a simple solution. Using rp-pppoe 2.4.3 on FC5, I am now able to use Tata Indicom Broadband through a lan cable to eth0.
The trick lay in deleting all entries from /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, /etc/ppp/options and /etc/ppp/resolv.conf. Then, as root, I ran the /etc/sbin/ppoe-setup script again, gave all the correct parameters (including the two DNS server addersses). The /etc/sbin/pppoe-start script then connected at first attempt. I had pirut running overnight, and in the early morning the connection was creeping. /etc/sbin/pppoe-stop as root closed the connection, and the pppoe-start script connected again on second attempt after one time out. Pirut didn't drop the process in the mean time. There, the experimental results have been reproduced. All in all, if the Tata Indicom personnel gave the same level of support to Linux as Windows, i.e. "clear your cache and delete all cookies, double click on the dialer shortcut" on the above lines, the problem would have been solved earlier. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
