John Kyatt wrote:
Hi,
Normally I try to solve my own problems, and "Red Hat in 24 Hours" has most of what I need to know. I'm a relative newbie to Linux, having installed it on my old Celeron 850 late last year. The latest problem has gone beyond the book, and I suspect that we can't go outside Australia for a solution. My ISP has indicated that the problem lies with Telstra, as my hardware and their servers have not undergone any changes which would cause the problems I'm experiencing. I'm writing this from a Windows machine. Since 1/9 I haven't been able to send or receive any mail on the Red Hat machine. Has anyone in the SLUG been affected by Telstra upgrades to their ADSL lines? On the Windows machine I had to download Dr.TCP and make some changes to the settings. This was to limit the packet size going through the modem/router, for reasons best understood by the techos. My ISP - iinet - gave me some settings to change on the Red Hat machine through the Terminal and Text Editor, which accepted, but I still can't send or receive any mail. I live in the Canberra/Queanbeyan area. Below is the mail item which might help explain things better. I have Nedit, not Pico on my machine, the mtu value was 1400, not 1420, and <CTRL-S> was used to save the changes.
I control 2 systems with bigpond ADSL connections (against my wishes) and both have been fine - although in Wollongong and Sydney. One is terminated with an RHEL 3 box, and the other a RH7.2 box.
What are you using to connect? Ethernet modem with built in pppoe/a or are you running the pppoe soft from your machine? Can you browse the web? What happens when you check mail or try to send?
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