Please download the rp-pppoe client from Roaring Penguin ( http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe). Unzip the .tar.gz archive to a folder on your disk and run the go-gui script.
If everything goes well (and it should), you will get a successful install. Then, run your favourite shell and become root with su. Run tkpppoe from the command line (with the root user, you get the configuration options). In the tkpppoe gui dialer, click new connection and enter your username (abc of the [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and your domain (vsnl.net). Enter your password. On the next tab, you can select to have all users run tkpppoe, and keep the firewall setting at None (hopefully you have some other firewall configured and running). On the last tab, you will need to enter the Access Concentrator (AC) name, which is very important in case of VSNL. Make sure you enter the following with the correct case: VSNL_PuneBRAS00 The last two characters are zeroes. Click OK, and you're ready to go. You can click 'start' to connect, and 'stop' to disconnect. Clicking 'exit' without stopping only closes the gui but keeps the pppd daemon (and your connection) running, so be careful. You will know if you have connected successfully if two boxes on the upper right hand corner of the tkpppoe gui turn green from red (yellow denotes a continuous connection). Test your connection by going to say, www.google.com in your browser. If the lights are green and nothing happens for a long time (there is a traffic counter / graph on the gui below the lights and they don't show significant movement), it could be that your ethernet card had obtained a default IP address from the VSNL server when you switched on your computer. This would have set a default route distinct from your pppoe connection. This happens quite frequently (2 out of 5 times). Close the connection, exit tkpppoe. Go back to the shell where you were root, and run /sbin/ifdown eth0 (or is it /usr/sbin/ifdown?) This would release the default IP address and route. You can again run tkpppoe as a normal user from the shell or the run command, or if you are running KDE, under the internet section in the start menu. It should run properly now. Hope this helps. -- ______________________________________________________________________ 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.
