Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home
On ?, 2003-07-07 at 22:29, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi, Is there any way for me to connect to ADSL using Alcatel Speed Touch Home? I would rather, if I can at all avoid it, to not change it's firmware, at least not to the pro version. If by that you mean you want to use your Alcatel with PPPoE rather than the tedious pptp on Redhat, you can easily change your modem's configuration according to the instructions in: http://www.isoc.org.il/%7Edoron/PPPoE.html Then, all you have to do (On the recent Redhat releases, anyways) is run adsl-setup. You might want to avoid the save settings option when changing the modem to pppoe, so that if you ever want to change back to pptp, you simply need to restart the modem. I've been using pppoe for about a month now, and I've noticed numerous disconnections - at least 10 a week. When I used pptp, the frequency of disconnections was roughly once per week. I haven't switched back to pptp to confirm that this indeed is the problem (I try to avoid using packages not from the official pool), so if anyone wants to report their experience with pppoe, I'd be happy to hear it. Amir. = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home
Amir Sela wrote: On ?, 2003-07-07 at 22:29, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi, Is there any way for me to connect to ADSL using Alcatel Speed Touch Home? I would rather, if I can at all avoid it, to not change it's firmware, at least not to the pro version. If by that you mean you want to use your Alcatel with PPPoE rather than the tedious pptp on Redhat, you can easily change your modem's configuration according to the instructions in: http://www.isoc.org.il/%7Edoron/PPPoE.html Thank! That's exactly what I was looking for. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Open Source integration consultant Home page resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/ = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home
Ummm... I'm using RedHat with pptp. Maybe I didn't understand the question... my firewalls use pptp-1.1 to connect to ADSL (Alcatel @work, RH7.3) or cable (Motorola @home RH9). Just download the source and compile it. You add the passwords to the chap/pap-secrets, and use the pptp binary to establish the connection. (on cable you need to rewrite the routing tables.. but that's another problem.) If you need the command line parameters, I can yank'em out. If memory serves me right, pptp doesn't even require a full kernel source to build. (Though I build the kernel just the for the heck of it. :-)) Did I get the question right? Gilboa On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:29, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Hi, Is there any way for me to connect to ADSL using Alcatel Speed Touch Home? I would rather, if I can at all avoid it, to not change it's firmware, at least not to the pro version. Alternatively, is there any way to configure redhat to use pptp without reinstalling 2/3 of the system? Shachar = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home
Shachar Shemesh wrote on 2003-07-07: Alternatively, is there any way to configure redhat to use pptp without reinstalling 2/3 of the system? I just call pptp from custom script:: /usr/sbin/pptp 10.0.0.138 --quirks=BEZEQ_ISRAEL I currently have pptp 1.1.0 from http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ I've yet to find a way to integrate it with redhat-config-network and make it auto-load as a recognized network interface. -- Beni Cherniavsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] If I don't hack on it, who will? And if I don't GPL it, what am I? And if it itches, why not now? [With apologies to Hilel ;] = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PPPoE and Alcatel Home
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:29:09PM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way for me to connect to ADSL using Alcatel Speed Touch
Home? I would rather, if I can at all avoid it, to not change it's
firmware, at least not to the pro version.
Alternatively, is there any way to configure redhat to use pptp without
reinstalling 2/3 of the system?
What do you mean?
pptp-linux of a resonable version, if missing, can be easiliy installed.
I figure this is no problem.
The networking scripts are probably full of hooks.
For instance, in redhat 7.3, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp , I
see:
# check that xDSL connection
if [ $TYPE = xDSL ] ; then
if [ -x /sbin/adsl-start -o -x /usr/sbin/adsl-start ] ; then
adsl-start /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/$CONFIG
exit $?
else
logger -p daemon.info -t ifup-ppp \
$adsl-start does not exist or is not executable for ${DEVICE}
exit 1
fi
fi
This code is run, if I understand the script correctly, when you run
'ifup ppp0'
I assume that such a script could start eth0 or whatever.
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