I use Mandrake 10.1 with speedtouch 330 and shorewall (option no services
to allow the internet to connect to as I use my machine only to browse
the internet). I downloaded the Mandrake updates available at the mirror
sites.
I find that a decent connection with my internet provider is normally not
established after the first boot. It may take a few extra machine restarts
before the DNS addresses are known. The authentication process with the
provider seems to be OK in all cases because the file /var/log/messages
reflects both local and remote IP and the command ifconfig invariably
indicates the connection is there:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb) TX bytes:4594 (4.4 Kb)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:xx.xxx.xx.xx P-t-P:yyy.yyy.yyy.y Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:54 (54.0 b) TX bytes:54 (54.0 b)
The number of RX and TX packets is low however in case of failure.
The /var/log/messages in these failure cases do not show the DNS addresses.
Two things surprise me a bit.
1. In case of success, the information about the addresses shows the
familiar layout:
Aug 10 00:17:22 localhost pppd[2319]: local IP address xx.xxx.xx.xx
Aug 10 00:17:22 localhost pppd[2319]: remote IP address yyy.yyy.yyy.y
Aug 10 00:17:22 localhost pppd[2319]: primary DNS address zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz
Aug 10 00:17:22 localhost pppd[2319]: secondary DNS address aaa.aaa.a.aa
but in /var/log/messages this information comes many lines BEFORE the
modem message:
Aug 10 00:17:16 localhost modem_run[1147]: ADSL line is up (1600 kbit/s
down | 512 kbit/s up)
though the time indicates the order is OK.
2. In case of failure, the lines giving the local and remote addresses
seems to be lacking carriage returns:
Aug 10 00:02:43 localhost pppd[2232]: local IP address xx.xxx.xx.xx
<29>Aug 10 00:02:43 pppd[2232]: remote IP address yyy.yyy.yyy.y
I have no idea what is going on.
Ed
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