adsl connection

I installed an ethernet card and a trust 445 modem/router
I have fedora distribution with roaringpenguin rp.ppoe program
After having configured ADSL-SETUP as below

internet interface ppp0
login ...
interface eth0
activate on demand no
dns addresses server
pass ...
user ctrl yes
firewalling 2

I note that modem send signals (act led blinking sometimes)
and after one/two minutes operating system returns to
prompt.

I see ADSL-STATUS with the following sentence:

you have enabled demand connection;
adsl-status may be inaccurate
adsl-status: link is down (can't read pppoe pid file in
/var/run/ppoe-adsl.pid.ppoe

of course in directory /var/run/ there isn't this file.

How can I continue? What configuration needs to connection?

Please help me to go away from ms-windows.

giancarlo tronconi
lugo - italy


p.s. I think that when connections with internet will became much more
easy with linux, much more people will move to this s.o.

On Wed, 12 May 2004 13:07:42 GMT, giancarlo tronconi <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I installed an ethernet card and a trust 445 modem/router
> I have fedora distribution with roaringpenguin rp.ppoe program
> After having configured ADSL-SETUP as below

You cannot do pppoe through a router. If your modem/router is acting as a
router, it does the PPPoE (if properly configured). Linux eth0 to
modem/router would just use dhcp, OR static IP, gateway to router IP,
nameserver(s) in /etc/resolv.conf.

If you want Linux to do the pppoe, your modem/router needs to be
configured as just a bridge modem (or whatever it calls it to let your PC
do the PPPoE).

Since you also mentioned Windows, what Windows program or method can
successfully connect through this modem/router to internet (do you just
configure network card to get IP automatically, or does it use PPPoE)?

--
David Efflandt - All spam ignored http://www.de-srv.com/

> You cannot do pppoe through a router.

I know this is unrelated to the original poster's problem, but just for
nitpicking purposes, I'll point out that you definitely can do PPPoE though
a router. At least Linksys BEFW11S4 can do it (if you enable the PPPoE
passthrough) and it's not particularly featureful.

It's pretty quirky, but I've used it occasionally because the VPN
passthrough doesn't work from one of my machines, so I use
PPPoE-passthrough and then VPN over that. Yuck.


Stefan