I've had similar history with ADSL. Its weird science I think. After fiddling and even upgrading pppoe, it just worked after I re-configured the link (ie using Mandrake command centre)
I'd check your ISP first the line might be out. That was the most common prob. Stu On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 18:36, Theo Julienne wrote: > Hi SLUGers, > > I am running a server (on linux) here on ADSL, however recently I have > had problems which cause the server to be unable to connect to ADSL. > When this happens, my other computers (1 windows and 1 linux) CAN > connect. So it is only the server. When this first happened (a few weeks > back), the problem was solved by buying a better ethernet card, this did > fix the problem, but this morning it dropped off again, and is doing the > same thing. So I doubt it is the ethernet card. Cables have been checked > (and different cables tried). Does anyone know why this could happen? > The LAN works (SSH etc) - *only* ADSL doesn't work. It spontaneously did > this while I was sleeping. > > This is a snippet from /var/log/messages from a connection attempt: > Jan 29 18:25:07 ozweb pppd[9956]: Using interface ppp0 > Jan 29 18:25:07 ozweb pppd[9956]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1 > Jan 29 18:25:38 ozweb pppd[9956]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests > Jan 29 18:25:38 ozweb pppd[9956]: Connection terminated. > Jan 29 18:25:42 ozweb pppoe[9957]: Timeout waiting for PADS packets > Jan 29 18:25:42 ozweb pppd[9956]: Exit. > > I am using Roaring Penguin PPPoE on an Alcatel SpeedTouch Pro - RedHat > Linux 7.3 with kernel 2.4.18-3. > > Any help would be appreciated :) > > Thanks, > > Theo Julienne > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
