ADSL on Telstra Bigpond ("new" 4 port Alcatel Speed Touch Pro)

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

Hi,
Firstly, sorry for using the Enigma mailing list - my
router is 6.2, but I'm sure there is little or no traffic
on the zoot list.

Anybody managed to setup the above on Linux yet?
My router is Redhat 6.2 (not 100% up-to-date but I'll
do that once the new ADSL is working)
ppp is 2.3.11-4
rp-ppoe is 3.3-1

I've seen a few pages saying you just need to:
1) adsl-setup (yes my username has "@bigpond" appended)
2) ifconfig eth0 up (no dhcp, pump etc - yes I'm using eth0)
3) adsl-start

The "new" '4 port Alcatel Speed Touch Pro' may be the problem
coz I'm sure it is configured to do NAT and I can guess that
that may be a problem (I do have the manual but I'm wary of
changing anything in the setup before I check if anyone else
has got this working)

I've looked around the net a little bit but keep finding the
same 3 steps above on the few pages I've looked at
(and no comments regarding the 4 port modem)

Here's some extra info:
-----------------------
It works connected to a windows machine (I ran the full Telstra
setup and got it working without any problems - not sure if that
has caused any more config problems for Linux)

Under windows the windows dhcp address is 10.0.0.1 which
is obviously NAT'ed so that could be a problem
(the modem is 10.0.0.138)

Linux:
eth0 (after the failed start) shows no IP address ... as expected

I do have a ifcfg-eth0 but it shouldn't get used and it's contents are:
DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="none"
ONBOOT="no"

I've tried completely removing all rules from my firewall to
ensure that is not causing any problems (the firewall will
cause problems if left on - since I still am not sure what
the interface will be called - I guess ppp0 - but I'm not sure)

(I already have one ADSL connection through a different ISP
this is the second one)

The messages in /var/log/messages are:
Jan 29 18:03:20 b1b2 pppd[4066]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0
Jan 29 18:03:20 b1b2 pppd[4066]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 29 18:03:20 b1b2 pppd[4066]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
Jan 29 18:03:51 b1b2 pppd[4066]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests 
Jan 29 18:03:51 b1b2 pppd[4066]: Connection terminated.
Jan 29 18:03:55 b1b2 pppoe[4067]: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
Jan 29 18:03:55 b1b2 pppd[4066]: Exit.
Jan 29 18:20:01 b1b2 kernel: PPP: ppp line discipline successfully 
unregistered 

-- 
-Thanks for any help
-Andrew

MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding!