Verizon DSL with RH 7.2-- Help?

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Dave. I don't know exactly how to fix this problem, as I am unfamiliar
with this package and Rh in general. However, I can tell you that my
friend has Varizon and he has to connect to a vpn server to access the
net. Also, his NIC isn't assigned the ip, its his dsl modem. His ip to the
nic is something like 169.254.xxx.xxx. I'm not sure what would happen on
the Linux end of things, as I do not believe that Linux utilizes the
169.254.*.* address range unlike Winblows, which happens to somehow use it
for autoconfiguration. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, I'm just not very
familiar with dsl under Linux. Perhaps looking at the ethernet howto can
peroduce some answers?

Gates go to hell, your OS is waiting for you there!

On Sat, 11 May 2002, Dave Hunt wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I recently got a DSL connection from Verizon.  It works well, using Windows
> 2000 and the Win Poet client.  My DSL modem is the Westell unit provided by
> Verizon.  My Ethernet card is by 3com.  The card works correctly on
> broadband networks which use dhcp (Linux and Windows, both).
>
> The Linux side:
>
> I downloaded the latest i386 rpm of rp-pppoe (a user-space PPPOE client from
> Roaring Penguin).  My Redhat system shipped with a corrupted copy of this
> package.  I replaced it with the new copy, (uninstalled the bad, and
> installed the new with "rpm -Uvh).
>
> Next, I ran the provided setup script.  It asks a few questions, and
> modifies several configuration files.  The files got modified as I'd been
> led to expect.  Using the Redhat setup tool, I turned off unnecessary
> services, like dhcpd, httpd, for instance.  Just before rebooting, I moved
> the file "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0" to my root directory,
> so the Ethernet device wouldn't come up at boot time, with the "pump" dhcp
> client.  Finally, I restarted.
>
> Using the Rp-PPPOE, one is supposed to bring up the ADSL connection with
> "ADSL-start".  When I do this, It tries to connect, and quits with a
> "timeout" error.  What may I have missed?  Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Dave Hunt
> Home tel:  617 923 2407
>
> Office tel:  617 912 5238
>
> Email:  dave.hunt2 at verizon.net
>
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