On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Rebecca Richards wrote:
> Hmm... as far as I am aware, you do __not_ need to give the NIC card used by
> the ADSL an IP address. Indeed, if you were watching how the techie did
> things, he didn't put an IP address into the Windows configs for the interface
> either. You also do _not_ need to set the interface to use DHCP.
I only gave the card an IP address to make it trivial to ping
it... i.e. that was in the "check that stuff is working" phase.
> Works like a charm. When I want to up the ADSL, I do "adsl-start", when I want
> to drop the ADSL, I do "adsl-stop". Simple. I had it all running 5 minutes
> after the techie left (and he left behind a broken Win95 install).
I really wanted to see if I could work out how it all worked, and also
to make it an interface that starts automatically. I have an unlimited
connection, so I don't want to have to worry about connecting. I edited
/etc/network/interfaces to be:
auto lo ppp0
# loopback interface
iface lo inet loopback
# ADSL pppoe interface
iface ppp0 inet ppp
provider provider
pre-up ifconfig eth0 up
post-down ifconfig eth0 down
and that works nicely.
> One other tip. You'll notice that the SMTP server setting provided by the
> documentation is "mail-hub" and the POP server is "pop-server" with no FQDN.
> Set the "search" option in your /etc/resolv.conf to "vic.bigpond.net.au", and
> mail-hub and everything else will magically start resolving :) www will also
> magically start resolving too.
Yeah, this one confused me for a bit, but I came up with a slightly
different solution. instead of the "search" option I used the "domain"
option, as in:
domain vic.bigpond.net.au
Which works fine, and seemed to be what the man page suggested. Should I
be using "search"?
cheers,
Martin
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