Ron, Perhaps my last post wasn't clear.
Multiple external connections, in any configuration, will not work without significant modifications to the current networking code. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Ron Byer Jr. <r...@netweave.com> wrote: > Getting back to this finally. > > Here are some details on how I am attemting to set up the 2nd EXT port as a > PPP link: > > EXTIF=eth0 > > EXTIP="96.56.230.78" > EXTNM="255.255.255.248" > EXTGW="96.56.230.73" > > > EXT2IF=ppp0 > > #EXT2IP="dhcp" > #EXT2NM="255.255.255.0" > #EXT2GW="68.236.211.11" > > > PPPOEUSER="<username>" > PPPOEPASS="<password>" > PPPOEIF="eth1" > PPPOEKERNEL="yes" > PPPOEDEBUG="yes" > > > Upon rebooting with this configuration, I find that I don't have a > eth0,eth1, or ppp0 connection: > > sk3 ~ # ifconfig > eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:24:CB:01:32 > inet addr:192.168.17.78 Bcast:192.168.17.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:24112 (23.5 KiB) TX bytes:36135 (35.2 KiB) > Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe300 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) > > > Other attempts: > > I've experimented with the definition of EXT2IP/NM/GW, with no apparent > change.. Ultimately, I've left them commented out since they should be > assigned as part of the ppp setup in any event. > > I switched eth0 and eth1, making the ppp link on eth0. End up with the same > interface configuration as above. > > Any thoughts would be welcome. I've been tracing the network script > (S03Network) that is invoked during startup. I don't have any intelligent > observations on that yet, so I will refrain from speaking on that process > till I understand what's going on there. > > rb > > > Ron Byer Jr. > NetWeave Integrated Solutions, Inc. > +1.732.786.8830 x120 > -- Kristian Kielhofner http://blog.krisk.org http://www.submityoursip.com http://www.astlinux.org http://www.star2star.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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 pay...@krisk.org.