Re: Getting optus ADSL working on Ubuntu

On 2006-06-27, John B wrote:
Hi all,
Firstly, I am by no means an expert in linux so feel free to point out
the "obvious" :)

I set up a ubuntu machine for my dad who is a 2 hour drive away from me.
I have optus cable so it works straight out of the box but he has optus
adsl and it doesnt work.

Using network-manager-gnome we checked the ip settings which all seem to
be good. An ip is assigned via dhcp in the 58.xxx range and the primary
and secondary dns servers seem fine.
The only thing I could find was that eth0 was not set as the default
gateway device which we did via the network settings panel.

Still we cannot ping google.com.au either by ip or by name.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers
JB


Perhaps the ISP (Optus?) has some sort of MAC-filter set up. I know
that a Danish ISP, TDC, does that with cable customers. The first time
you plug in a computer, you are sent to a website where you basically
lock the line to the MAC-address you're working from. So if you've set
up a new box, you'd need to figure out how to change the lock or clone
the MAC.

I'm just guessing though, but it seems that a lot of people with these
kinds of connections seem to completely forget the lock and spend hours
troubleshooting before someone or something reminds them of the lock :)

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