Glad it worked for you, and its also nice to have a little more evidence
that CPU IS a determining factor with PPPoE, though I think you went a
little overboard on speed and memory, LOL :-)


-Kenneth Hadley


----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Kenneth Hadley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Charles Steinkuehler"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "leaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 3:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] upgrading lrp box


> Ken:
> That was it.  When I used one PCI and one ISA card it got the IP address
> from Covad.  My connection from Covad is 1.5mbps down/ 384kbps up PPPoE.
>  When I had the 486DLC-40 with 32 meg of memory as the LRP, speed was
> 538kbps/ 328kbps according to DSL Reports.com.  With the HP, PII 400 mhz
> with 96 meg of memory as my LRP, speed was 1.2mbps/ 313kbps.  Had to use
> my Dell notebook to make the connection to dslreports.  The Dell is a
> Latitude Cpi with 266 PII and 80 meg of memory running Windoze 98 se2
> and used IE 5.01 as the browser.
> Just a little better connection speed huh? :-D
> Thanks for the help and for your time in modifying Eigerstein2 beta and
> Dachstein by adding PPPoE to them.
> Charles Thanks for creating Eigerstein and Dachstein.
> Robert Chambers
>
> Kenneth Hadley wrote:
>
> >Have you tried using two PCI nics or just one ISA card and one PCI card?
> >
> >I've run into problems with P2/P3/Athlon systems that have two ISA slots
but
> >the first ISA slot is shared with the last PCI slot so they conflict even
if
> >nothing is in the last PCI slot
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Robert Chambers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "Charles Steinkuehler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "leaf"
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 11:27 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] upgrading lrp box
> >
> >
> >>Charles:
> >>I also tried Dachstein 1.0.2 with PPPoE from Ken and it also would not
> >>get an IP address from Covad.
> >>" starting ADSL" would come back with "timed out".  I was able to
> >>connect to the weblet in  both Eigerstein2beta and Dachstein and look at
> >>the firewall status, so I know that I had the cables hooked up right.
> >>
> >>Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> >>
> >>>>I tried to upgrade my lrp box from the little 486DLC to my HP Pavilion
> >>>>which has a PII 400 mhz cpu.
> >>>>So I took the nic's which are 3Com 3c509b ISA bus and the
> >>>>Eigerstein2beta pppoe v.0.4 disk from the 486 and put them into the
HP.
> >>>> After the system boots up I checked to see if it found the cards and
> >>>>it did.  Eth0 =00:20:AF:40:77:E2 and Eth1=00:60:8C:E9:F3:5E  which is
> >>>>what is printed on the nic's, and cables are plugged in correctly (
eth0
> >>>>is the DSL modem and 5 port switch is on Eth1).
> >>>>What I did notice is that the lrp is not getting an IP address from
> >>>>Covad.  "Extern IP" is blank, does not show an IP address.
> >>>>When I put everything back into the 486, guess what it connects up
just
> >>>>fine.  The 486 machine gets an IP address from Covad.  When I had the
> >>>>3Com nic's in the HP I ran the 3c5x9cfg config program to see if the
> >>>>cards were configured correctly.
> >>>>Any suggestions?
> >>>>
> >>>Make sure you're using the latest dhcp client.  The EigerStein disk
> >>>
> >images
> >
> >>>have an older script that has problems connecting to some DHCP servers
> >>>
> >under
> >
> >>>varying circumstances.  Since the problem can manifest itself in some
> >>>instances as a race condition, it could be affected by your local CPU
> >>>speed...
> >>>
> >>>Charles Steinkuehler
> >>>http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
> >>>http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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