From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 27 6:43:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A76C137B6EB for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 06:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ddavid@ican.net) Received: from ican.net (HSE-Toronto-ppp129752.sympatico.ca [64.228.64.109]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03208; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:49:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39084452.AD93AD96@ican.net> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:44:50 -0400 From: David David X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marty Poulin Cc: "Jonathan E. Lyons" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@gtabug.org Subject: Re: gtabug - Re: Problems connecting to ADSL / PPPoE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Well, I made the following modifications: > > in /etc/rc.conf: > > ifconfig_ed0="inet 192.168.254.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 -arp up" set the ed0 address to "0.0.0.0" if anything, if that is what is connected to the nortel, pppoe will setup that interface IP when it connects. > > and I changed my /etc/ppp/ppp.conf to match the example in the handbook. > The route error no longer comes up, but I still don't get connected. > > Interesting - the connection status indicator on the ADSL modem goes from > red (no connection) to yellow (negotiating connection) while the PPP > script is attempting to connect. But it never turns green (connected). before you can connect all 3 status lights( 1st, 3rd, and 6th) should be green in the first place, especially the 3rd light which shows you have sync with Bell. If you are not green on that one, you can try all you like to connect and it will not. There is no " connect" light when signing on with pppoe, your only indication is on the computer itself. ( i'm sure someone else could put this in a better perspective) If you cannot get a sync with Bell ( 3rd light) then check your connections etc, turn the nortel off and then back on and wait for it too sync ( green ) and if that fails, with the nortel on, unplug the phone cable at the jack the nortel is connected too, wait a few, then plug it back in. ( got that one from sympatico, it seems sometimes the nortel blank out and thats the only way of resetting them) If you still cannot get that 3rd light green then its on Bell's side where the problem is. Hope this helps David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message