Are you trying to connect to iinet with ADSL and Linux?

> 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
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Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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