RE: ADSL on Telstra Bigpond ('new' 4 port Alcatel Speed Touch Pro

["Andrew Smith" <rhml k1k2 com>]

Dan,
thanks for the suggestion, but no it is not to do with Cable

I configured a cable setup for a friend a few months ago and
once BPALogin was working and I opened a hole in the firewall
for the heartbeat - everything has worked fine ever since

But I am getting somewhere with this problem ...
There does appear to be a startup script problem with RedHat 6.2
It would appear that not having an ifcfg-eth0 during boot
makes eth1 and eth2 fail to start up during boot (is this a feature?)

Maybe there are other problems with using eth0 as the pppoe
connection (thats the next thing to search for in google - or
maybe I'll just swap eth1 and eth0 and see what happens)

As for ADSL, well my first/current connection is iPrimus with static
IP and that goes through Telstra ... it has been pretty good since
around October after everyone was complaining about Telstra and they
did something about it.
I'm certainly not a Telstra advocate - the new connection took over
four weeks when it should have taken less than 2 - due to:
1) the original email after signing up online (31 Dec) was not sent
2) a person forgot to put my details into the computer to send out
   the modem when the exchange cabling was done so my modem wasn't
   sent out
3) the ADSL cabling at the exchange wasn't done properly and I chased
   it up on Thu afternoon (got the modem on Thu morning), they got back
   to me on Fri afternoon and I then had to wait until after the long
   weekend to get it fixed on Tue (yesterday)
Typical Telstra - many idiots - few good :-)

-Cheers
-Andrew

> I heard of bigpond cable users requiring a "heart beat" application. 
> The heart beat app listens for, and replies to, magic packets telstra
> send out (UDP i think).
> 
> I am also pretty sure telstra use DHCP. Maybe you should configure eth0
> to use dhcp?
> 
> Or maybe your problem IS bigpond adsl? Everyone knows bigpond adsl
> doesnt work ;)
> 
> Dan
> 
>> 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"
>> 

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