Re: [gentoo-user] ppp connection problem
On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 17:20, Moshe Kamensky moshe.kamen...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to help my father install gentoo on a new computer (I am across the ocean). We have a problem with the internet connection. He has an adsl account. He runs pppoe-start, and it says that he is connected. ifconfig shows that ppp0 is up, and gives an ip address. However, I can't ping that address (I get 100% packet loss). He also can't ping any address. We called the ISP, and from their side it seems that he is connected, and everything is fine. I don't know where else to look. The log messages showed in the beginning messages of the form LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests but they seem to no longer appear. As I said, I don't even know where to start looking for the problem. Any help is appreciated. OK, this may me a little off topic. I don't even know where to start when it comes to check your dad's connection. Being far away and not knowing the exact messages, with no access to the machine itself, its almost impossible to debug and resolve the problem. My advice: get a router! Configure it for your dad's connection, the router will assume the PPoE connection, saving you the trouble. It also will act as a firewall and even if your dad's computer fail, any other DHCP enabled device connected to the router will have Internet access. Anyway, my two cent :D -- Daniel da Veiga
[gentoo-user] ppp connection problem
Hi, I am trying to help my father install gentoo on a new computer (I am across the ocean). We have a problem with the internet connection. He has an adsl account. He runs pppoe-start, and it says that he is connected. ifconfig shows that ppp0 is up, and gives an ip address. However, I can't ping that address (I get 100% packet loss). He also can't ping any address. We called the ISP, and from their side it seems that he is connected, and everything is fine. I don't know where else to look. The log messages showed in the beginning messages of the form LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests but they seem to no longer appear. As I said, I don't even know where to start looking for the problem. Any help is appreciated. Thank you, Moshe pgpQGEoPPuXl1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] ppp connection problem
On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 16:20:32 -0400 Moshe Kamensky moshe.kamen...@googlemail.com wrote: We called the ISP, and from their side it seems that he is connected, and everything is fine. I don't know where else to look. The log messages showed in the beginning messages of the form LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests but they seem to no longer appear. As I said, I don't even know where to start looking for the problem. Any help is appreciated. I can suggest trying at least two things: 1. pon connection name debug nodetach You'll see a lot of messages, and, probably, some errors. Most of them are probably non-fatal, but try eliminating all of them by setting right asyncmap, compression, authentication etc In the end you should get IP and connection shouldn't break after a minute or so, which is often because of 2. 2. ip route Check that there's only one default route, that there's a route to IP you're connecing with, aside from default one through it, and that it's metric is lower than the default one. Check that you can still ping that IP. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
