Have recently been fighting it out with the Reliance Fixed Wireless
phone trying to get it to connect to the internet using Linux. To be
sure I confirmed it works fine from Windows - ofcourse what it does to
connect is black magic.
A little request I am away for 3 days therefore please Cc me in all
replies since I am turning off all email deliveries till I return.
Anyway back to my attempts to use pppd.
1. According to windows they were using Password Authentical Protocol
therefore /etc/ppp/pap-secrets got updated with the username and
password.
2. Next /dev/ttyS0 got symlinked to /dev/rmodem
3. Started pppd with the following parameters
pppd /dev/rmodem 115200 debug lock asyncmap 0 modem usepeerdns
defaultroute connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v "" at+crm=1 OK "atdt#777"
CONNECT' mtu 264
I ofcourse pulled this information out of the rconnect script provided
by linux.
4. tail -f /var/log/messages shows a normal dialout session and ends up
saying
local IP address 97.232.158.218
remote IP address 97.232.2.10
primary DNS address 97.253.25.9
secondary DNS address 97.253.25.10
Unfortunately all my miseries start after this. Tried using dig to
resolve hotmail.com resulted in SERVFAIL error message. Ssh with
verbose mode to a public IP just stayed at connecting with no result.
traceroute to any public IP goes to 97.232.2.10 and 97.232.2.1 after
that no output. traceroute to the DNS server goes through atleast 4-5
machines before going into blackhole.
I am assuming whatever is talking to me from Reliance side has not
setup the proper routing. Which is why I was very surprised to see what
Windows has done for connecting to the internet.
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===========================================================================
Interface List
0x1 ........................... MS TCP Loopback interface
0x2 ...44 45 53 54 00 00 ...... PPP Adapter.
0x3 ...00 00 21 fd 4a 8a ...... NDIS 5.0 driver
===========================================================================
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface
Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 220.224.8.30 220.224.8.30 1
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 2
127.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 2
192.168.0.2 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
192.168.0.255 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 1
220.224.8.0 255.255.255.0 220.224.8.30 220.224.8.30 1
220.224.8.30 255.255.255.255 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 1
220.224.8.255 255.255.255.255 220.224.8.30 220.224.8.30 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.2 1
224.0.0.0 224.0.0.0 220.224.8.30 220.224.8.30 1
255.255.255.255 255.255.255.255 220.224.8.30 220.224.8.30 1
Default Gateway: 220.224.8.30
===========================================================================
Persistent Routes:
None
Windows IP Configuration
Host Name . . . . . . . . . : SUBHO
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 202.138.97.193
202.138.96.2
Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . :
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No
NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : No
0 Ethernet adapter :
Description . . . . . . . . : NDIS 5.0 driver
Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-00-21-FD-4A-8A
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Primary WINS Server . . . . :
Secondary WINS Server . . . :
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . :
Lease Expires . . . . . . . :
1 Ethernet adapter :
Description . . . . . . . . : PPP Adapter.
Physical Address. . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-00-00
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 220.224.8.30
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . : 220.224.8.30
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Primary WINS Server . . . . :
Secondary WINS Server . . . :
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . :
Lease Expires . . . . . . . :
-----------------------
As you can see the network settings are completely different even
though it says it is a ppp sessions.
I believe someone was working on getting the Fixed Wireless Phones up
and running using Linux - a google search by my set of keywords didnt
turn up any results therefore I would appreciate it if someone can give
me some pointers.
By the before anyone asks me no Reliance customer service will not even
acknowledge the existance of Linux I think. They try their best to
terminate the call once I mention Linux.
Hope somone has a working solution for this situation which can be
shared :).
Mithun
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