Anil Gulecha wrote: > > > On 6/27/06, *Pavan T C* <Pavan.Chandrashekar at sun.com > <mailto:Pavan.Chandrashekar at sun.com>> wrote: > > Moinak Ghosh wrote: > > Venky wrote: > > > >>> [...] > >>> > >>> * Now follow the instructions at (pppoe is already present on > BeleniX > >>> so you can ignore the "*INSTALLING PPPD 4.0" section.* > >>> > >>> http://www.phildev.net/solaris/spppoe.html > >>> > >> > >> > >> Do we need PPPoE? Shouldn't it be a regular DHCP or static IP > >> address as far as the computer is concerned? > >> > >> > > If you are using ADSL modem for Dataone, you'd need pppoe. If > you are > > using a router, then the router will do all the handshaking > and simple > > DHCP from the computer works. > > Not really. The ADSL modem (atleast the one that BSNL provides) has the > pppoe dialler built into it. You would need nothing more than an IP to > your machine. Once you configure the modem with the ppp username and > password, it can take care of doing the ppp part of the transaction and > will give your system an ethernet frame. > > > Yes thats right. The way i've configured now elsewhere is just by > entering the following data under the network settings: > a) IP address > b) Subnet mask > c) Default gateway > d) DNS servers > > GNOME has a straight forward tool to enter this info. I looked under KDE > but the utility says it does not support the platform (and lists the > supported platforms, asking me to select the one i think closely matches > the current platofrm. I tried with various BSDs and linuxes with no > luck). this utility is under settings>network>network connection (or such) > > BSNL provides dynamic IPs , and I dont think it supports DHCP.
It is not BSNL who provides IPs to your box, but just the modem, which can act as a DHCP server. You can also configure static IPs which are not actually addresses that you can use to reach the outside world. These addresses will be NATed before the packet can reach elsewhere. Pavan > > Regards > Anil > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54
