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) > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
