Help with Roaring Penguin & Red Hat 8.0?

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Haines Brown wrote:
<big snip>
> Thanks. Info appreciated. I'll compare at this end as soon as I can.
> 
> And here is my pppoe.conf for your perusal:
> 
>    DNS1=
>    DNS2= 000.000.000.000 ;-)
> 
> What's this? I have some onfiburation in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg.conf. It is somewwhats like your
> own. But you have a much bigger ppp0e timeout value, and I may try
> that because I'm begginng to seuspec a timing problem.

 rp-pppoe may recognize that your system is a different distribution
than mine and places configuration files in different places as
appropriate.  I showed you how I looked for pppoe.conf, but you
didn't show us how you searched for 'pppoe.conf'.  I'm worried
that you only looked in a specific directory. :-|  Maybe your
distribution doesn't even use a file named 'pppoe.conf'! :-|

 Other than adding "adsl-start" to my 'rc.local',
I edited no other files.  The 'install' procedure and
'adsl-setup' is all I did. :-|

 I see that it is difficult for you to view settings whereas
you need to reboot a busy system.  My system ("firewall") is
an old 80486dx33 that I bought a year or so ago for 5 USD. :-)

 I'm still holding on to these concepts:

- RP-PPPOE creates an IPCHAINS ruleset & Red Hat 8.0 uses IPTABLES.
  i.e. You never end up with 'valid' instructions to the kernel
  about handling packets with your DSL modem.

- eth0 should not have an IP address.
  ppp0 gets the IP address.
  Notice that my eth1 device does appear in my 'netstat -nr' report,
  and that my ppp0 device does.

HTH, Chuck
> 
> Haines
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