[plug] adsl trouble

[Paul Dean]

Hya,

Which eth dev is internal network and which one is external?
The internal eth should be a static address and the external eth should
be config to 'BOOTPROTO=dhcp' in your ifcfg-ethx.

Then you run an dhcp on internal eth IP range and setup a dhcp server on
that network, so then your internal network machines can be configured
to get IP via dhcp.

The adsl modem, how does it get its IP addressing? Can you config this
dev? How transparent is it? Does it run services?
These will help you configure you external eth dev properly.

iiNet runs there adsl modem bridged mode (blind and transparent) the eth dev
is assigned an IP, not the modem. So you talk direct to the cisco
modems. Just makes things easy.

Hope this helps.



On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Craig Ringer wrote:

> 
> > [root at Main700 rbb]# route -n
> <snip>
> 
> 
> > There is only one wire from the router to the box, eth1 at the moment. I
> > did try using eth0 when I discovered eth1 having problems. The only
> > reason I didn't take it out is because I wanted to route traffic to
> > another box from this one via eth0.
> 
> Its bizarre, that config _looks_ fine. Have you checked if anything 
> changes in the route -n and ifconfig -a command output when you've lost 
> connectivity? Were those taken when the 'net access was working?
> 
> Honestly if that's an example of status when its non-working, you've got 
> me stumped. I'd suggest swapping the functions of eth1 and eth0 (perhaps 
> its a hardware/driver interaction with the NIC?) to see if that works 
> better.
> 
> 

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