[plug] Newbie - ADSL -

[Leon Brooks]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 22:55, Mark Bailey wrote:
> I can dial in from a terminal window but not PPP presumably because
> the dial-in wants to use PPP0 and it is already taken by the ADSL
> modem. (is this correct?)

Sorta. It's more likely to be a conflict in ppp options between PPPoE and 
plain ppp, and/or stuff in /etc/ppp/ip-(up|down){.local} making (false) 
assumptions about what's going on.

If you have a copy of your old /etc/ppp/options file you can try copying that 
to /etc/ppp/options.ttyS0 (or whatever port your modem's tied to). Starting 
pppd with the `debug' option and any chat scripts with `-v' might give you 
some useful info (usually in syslog AKA /var/log/messages).

In the ip-(up|down) scripts, you can check IP addresses, ipparam arguments, 
device names and other stuff to decide what kind of ppp connection this 
instance of the script is involved with and do different things for PPPoE and 
`PPPoSerial' as appropriate. Try `man pppd' for more options than you thought 
necessary, and a description of the parameters and envars passed to the ip-* 
scripts.

Cheers; Leon