[SM-Discuss] need help from ppp, pppoe and usb ethernet users
Casey Harkins
charkins at upl.cs.wisc.edu
Fri Jun 20 16:01:50 EDT 2003
On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:53:20PM -0500, Casey Harkins wrote:
> >
> > If you're using ppp, pppoe or usb ethernet on your SourceMage box, I could
> > use your help!
> >
> > I'm currently working on updating the network configuration for
> > SourceMage. The current work has focused on configuring the
> > /etc/sysconfig/network directory for standard ethernet connections.
> >
> > I would like to expand this tool (netconf) to configure ppp and pppoe
> > setups as well, but have little experience setting up ppp with SourceMage,
> > and no experience with pppoe. Also, I'm curious if any additional work is
> > required for setting up usb ethernet devices.
>
> I'm using pppoe for my internet connection, here's the basic things i've
> done to get it work:
> - NOT configure the ethernet device used for adsl/pppoe in the normal
> network configuration
> - cast rp-pppoe, say 'yes' to the configure question (or run adsl-setup
> later), insert username/password, done
>
> adsl-setup takes care of the ethernet device and the whole ppp
> configuration.
>
Good deal, I can scratch pppoe off the list.
-casey
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