/etc/sysconfig/network on my redhat 7.0 box doing adsl: NETWORKING="yes" HOSTNAME="phoenix" GATEWAY="" GATEWAYDEV=""
Steven Blanchard wrote: > I think that you are right to be suspicious, because the default route > determines where net bound packets will go, is there a gateway set up on > eth0? that might be the cause of your troubles. > > ~Steven Blanchard > > Richard O. Hammer wrote: > >> I've installed RedHat 7.3 on a system which has one network >> card, and I'm having trouble getting my Roaring Penguin PPPoE >> connection to the Internet working. I'm trying to connect to >> my DSL service with Sprint/Earthlink. Before, when I had >> RedHat 7.0 running on the same system, the adsl software >> worked fine. But there seems to be something new about 7.3 >> which is not working. >> >> When I failed to get the connection going with the packages >> included with 7.3, I followed advice at >> <http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe> and downloaded and >> installed a new-old version, rp-pppoe-3.4-1.i386.rpm . But it >> is neither better nor worse, I don't think it changed >> anything. >> >> Anyhow, here are the symptoms: >> >> adsl-setup runs fine and congratulates me on my success. >> >> adsl-start seems to succeed. >> >> After running adsl-start, ifconfig shows a connection >> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol >> inet adr:63.173.123.59 P-t-P:63.173.123.1 >> Mask:255.255.255.255 >> UP POINTTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 >> Metric:1 >> ... >> >> 63.173.123.59 is the IP dynamically assigned by earthlink. >> >> adsl-status says the link is up and running on interface ppp0 >> >> tail /var/log/messages shows these messages (among others): >> pppd[]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/3 >> pppd[]: PPP session is 8923 >> pppd[]: Remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit >> 176 >> pppd[]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 >> [192.168.0.2] >> /* I am suspicious of that message ^ there. 192.168.0.2 >> is the >> address I have assigned to this machine for my LAN, >> connecting >> to a windows box. >> */ >> pppd[]: local IP address 63.173.123.59 >> pppd[]: remote IP address 63.173.123.1 >> pppd[]: primary DNS address 63.162.197.69 >> >> But I can't do anything with this internet connection. When I >> try: >> ping trilug.org , it responds >> ping: unknown host trilug.org >> >> And when I try ping 63.162.197.69 (the earthlink DNS server) >> it responds >> PING 63.162.197.69 from 192.168.0.2 : 56 bytes of data >> From 192.168.0.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable >> ... >> >> >> So it looks to me like perhaps my machine is identifying >> itself to the earthlink server as 192.168.0.2 instead of as >> 63.173.123.59, which is probably a mistake. >> >> But where/how do I fix this? >> >> Thank you, >> Rich Hammer >> _______________________________________________ >> TriLUG mailing list >> http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >> TriLUG Organizational FAQ: >> http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > > > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
