Static IP over PPPoE.. part 90?

Hello there fellow linux users..

I have a question which I'm sure you're quite sick of hearing. After
browsing all of the posts, I haven't found the answer I need.

On Windoze, I had a little mod that allowed me to have virtual static
IP. How I did this was in Network Properties, I'd right-click my
internet connection and select tcp/ip properties. In there, I could
check "Use the following IP" and enter in an IP that about 3 months
ago, was using.. I decided to keep it, and have never ran into
problems with using an IP this way. It doesn't change, doesn't have
problems connecting, it just gave me the same IP everytime, which was
the one I basically used to experiment with, and since it took, i just
kept it.. I am aware of the risks of this, if someone logs in and gets
dynamically assigned that address, i'd be toast. The only reason I
attempted it was because the TOS on my ISP says nothing against it..
My ISP is pretty laid-back.. either way, I really need help.

Now using Linux and RP-PPPoE, I have lost the ability to specify my IP
address. I know it by heart, and all of my servers are having problems
because I have a dynamic IP now. My IRC network has been split for
about 4 days now, and I really need to know how to specify an IP
address.

Please go easy on me, I'm still somewhat new to linux, and something
that's basically cut and paste would be good. If you can't do that,
i'd appreciate anything you could give me.. Post anything you know,
anything you've heard, anything that can help me out. ANY help would
be really appreciated. Any programs that allow this, any rp-pppoe
configuration files i'm missing..

I've seen similar threads here on this, but none were the same
problem. I want to specify the IP at my end. It worked flawless on
windoze, and as i say..

If it works on windows, it works better on linux.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I truly do thank you for
taking the time to read this.

-Token

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> Hello there fellow linux users..
>
> I have a question which I'm sure you're quite sick of hearing. After
> browsing all of the posts, I haven't found the answer I need.
>
> On Windoze, I had a little mod that allowed me to have virtual static
> IP. How I did this was in Network Properties, I'd right-click my
> internet connection and select tcp/ip properties. In there, I could
> check "Use the following IP" and enter in an IP that about 3 months
> ago, was using.. I decided to keep it, and have never ran into
> problems with using an IP this way. It doesn't change, doesn't have
> problems connecting, it just gave me the same IP everytime, which was
> the one I basically used to experiment with, and since it took, i just
> kept it.. I am aware of the risks of this, if someone logs in and gets
> dynamically assigned that address, i'd be toast. The only reason I
> attempted it was because the TOS on my ISP says nothing against it..
> My ISP is pretty laid-back.. either way, I really need help.
>
> Now using Linux and RP-PPPoE, I have lost the ability to specify my IP
> address. I know it by heart, and all of my servers are having problems
> because I have a dynamic IP now. My IRC network has been split for
> about 4 days now, and I really need to know how to specify an IP
> address.
>
> Please go easy on me, I'm still somewhat new to linux, and something
> that's basically cut and paste would be good. If you can't do that,
> i'd appreciate anything you could give me.. Post anything you know,
> anything you've heard, anything that can help me out. ANY help would
> be really appreciated. Any programs that allow this, any rp-pppoe
> configuration files i'm missing..
>
> I've seen similar threads here on this, but none were the same
> problem. I want to specify the IP at my end. It worked flawless on
> windoze, and as i say..

http://www.carricksolutions.com/linuxpppoe.php

says that the rp-pppoe is configured by the /etc/ppp/options file

what you want to do is to delete the "noipdefault" bit
and specify an ip addresss like this (just add the colon on the end).

206.65.34.2:

Then the pppd will try to use that ip address, and if the ISP accepts, you
are happy.

If the isp disagrees, then why would it work with Windows but not pppd , as
both implement ppp...

I googled for other people trying to make it work, but found a lot of
questions but no direct 'this worked for me' answer.

So I cant be sure it works, but thats the way its done.

Leon