Thanks to all who made such thought provoking responses! FYI...
The solutions were really very simple when I got over the thought that I had to run DHCP and/or PPPoE. Since the NetDSL 800 modem supplied to me by MSN (evidently the only access now available for Home use by MSN/Quest) runs DHCP but only responds to 192.168.1.2 (from 192.168.1.1). I simply assigned the 192.168.1.2 address to the eth0 card directly connected to the modem. My home LAN I assigned with the 192.168.2.0 subnet on eth1 with samba and a few other utilities. I entered 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.1 as nameservers, made sure route assigned the default eth0 gateway and it all started working! "Robert Canary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you considered using a wireless provider? Outperforms anything I have > seen on the market :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. > Nitebirdz) > Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2001 11:19 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: lacking Linux ADSL connectivity over MSN Broadband > > > On 23 Dec 2001, Alan E Derhaag wrote: > > > 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. > > > Alan, > > > Other people already got back to you with some pretty sensible suggestions, > so I won't bother to answer about this particular problem here. However, I > did want to recommend the following site that one of Qwest's DSL users put > up sometime ago. It contains lots of good advise, links to up to date > drivers, > etc. > > http://www.users.qwest.net/~rlutton/ADSL/ > -- 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
