I'm stuck! What's my best options at this point? It took better than a month for the negotiation of Qwest and MSN to get ADSL to my house. It was nearly insignificant getting my girl's WindozXP station hooked up to it but that is a different connection than I would choose. My dialup account used to furnish connectivity to the internet over a home LAN but I have been unsuccessful in getting Linux to communicate to MSN over the Arescom NetDSL800u modem (MSN Broadband indicates is the exclusive modem type). It appears that the windoz box uses only DHCP to negotiate only the connection available with that modem with the address 192.168.1.2 to the modem at 192.168.1.1. Running http://192.168.1.1/index.html allows the modem to indicate the status of the connection which, now, always indicates the ethernet connection is up as is the PPP (PPPoA), among other status items. This request must be posted from the 192.168.1.2 address otherwise there is no response from the modem.
I've attempted to connect another nic card to the modem's ethernet connection using DHCP, from my Linux box, but never get a response from it requesting from the 192.168.1.1 address over a direct ethernet connection (nothing else on the subnet). I've upgraded to dhcp-3.0 and no dhclient.conf configurations have yet been successful. Documentation of the pppoe indicates possible use of DHCP to establish the connection and IP addresses, although monitoring (with ethereal) the connection attempt for the WindozXP box never indicates use of PPPoE or PPPoA PADR packets. Arescom's web page for this modem type indicates either is a connection option with this modem. Any other solutions you can advise short of running lynx software on the Windoz box to make it a server? -- Alan E. Derhaag New Era Software Development http://aderhaag.tripod.com/ Auburn, WA, USA email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
