Re: [SLE] ADSL with PPPoE

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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 08:18:01 -0500

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 00:36, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
> I use SuSE 9.0 and try to setup an ADSL connection with a fix IP address
> over PPPoE.
> Interestingly it worked, but I did something and it stopped working!

Was this an address assigned by your ISP? If not you -will- have
problems.

>
> My data:
> PPPoE:
> login name, password
>
> adsl-start shows me connected!
> and gives me an pppoe IP of 61.x.x.a and an opposite IP address of 61.y.y.b

What is "an opposite IP address"?

> I cannot ping the opposite I address (maybe blocked by the provider)
>
> I setup my fix ip address in the network card info of YAST
> eth0: 222.c.c.37
>
> the default gateway gives me already doubts:
> I tried 222.c.c.254 and I tried 61.x.x.b

Again, where did you get these addresses from? These are public
addresses and if you are trying to use them on your private lan you
could have problems.

>
> I cannot ping anything outside! I see the ADSL modem is flashing (LAN
> and WAN) though.
>
> netstat -rn looks ok for me as well as ifconfig.

But them you seem to have very little experience with networks. Try
posting the results to this list and have others take a look. There may
be a major problem you can't see.

>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> bye
>
> Ronald

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