On Apr 13, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote: > Kristian Kielhofner wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Lonnie Abelbeck >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> ..snip.. >> >>> 4) In the Network tab, PPPoE can now have Static IP entries, >>> previously I was clearing these fields when PPPoE is chosen. >>> >> >> Lonnie, >> >> I don't think this is valid... PPPoE (at least ours) will always >> use PPP LCP to determine the IP address, certainly not our variables >> via ifconfig. The only time I ever saw a static IP on a PPPoE >> connection the connection still used PPP LCP but the provider would >> just assign the same IP every time. > > Kristian, > > I'll have to test this. Lonnie set this up per my request. Perhaps > it's not needed, but with the two setups that I've had to deal with IP > addresses, one appeared to use the static IP as defined by > EXTIP/EXTNM/EXTGW. AT&T (where they had 5 static IP's) would assign a > different one out of the 5 nearly every time I'd reboot--unless there > was enough time where the device wasn't reachable. > > Darrick
It is a simple change either way, so let me know. The Static IP settings are applied after PPPoE is finished in init.d/ network, so it appears to do no harm as an option. Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
