[plug] failing adsl connection

[Sol]

Derek Fountain wrote:

>>Strange... are you sure it isn't a DSL-500? Or have the newer DSL-300s
>>got an internal PPPoE client in them?
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>Presumably the latter. It's definitely a DSL-300, supplied by iinet (and 
>running their firmware as I understand it). It presents a web interface on 
>port 80 for its configuration, and once you've set it up you use a DHCP 
>client to query an IP address from it. It goes off to the ISP and fetches an 
>IP address which is what it returns to the host machine. The host machine 
>then sets that address as the gateway and everything works.
>
Close. I'm with Westnet and they use static IPs (one of the reasons I 
chose them) so I know what IP number I'm using and have been in the 
habit of setting it manually.

>
>It was extremely simple to set up, and doesn't use ppp to talk to its host 
>machine, which is why I was puzzled by the original poster's talk about ppp 
>problems.
>
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>
It was very simple to setup in the beginning and it ran for a month with 
no problems. Then there was a blackout, and when it came back up the 
internet connection didn't work. And I made a mistake reconfiguring 
which I only just twigged to. I thought I had to set the external 
ethernet card to be a DHCP client so that it would be assigned one by 
the modem. This wasn't correct. I had to set the modem to DHCP (which is 
done in the YaST2 interface). When the ethernet card was DHCP I couldn't 
get the packet filter to do IP forwarding for client machines and could 
only get internet on the client machines using Squid. But I wasn't happy 
with that (no ssh, ftp, etc). So I set the ethernet card to the static 
address that I knew Westnet assigned to my gateway machine.

Anyhoo, it's been working for most of the last hour without any hiccups 
so it might just be fixed. And maybe I'm starting to figure out the 
YaST2 maze. I mean YaST2 is good, but in some ways it's not any easier 
than just know which config files things are kept in. SuSE's config 
files are a bit all over the shop. But I like the convenience of 
SuSEfirewall which was easy to configure for dodos like me and just 
seems to work.

Thanks Derek and Craig for additional thoughts on this matter. It really 
did help me set this matter straight.

cheers; sol

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