On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Bret Hughes wrote:
> I am in the process of doing a Southwestern Bell DSL self
> install. I have the modem/bridge connected and solid lights
> on the dsl and atm indicators. According to the docs, I am
> jammin'.. However when I try to bring up eth0 with dhcp
> enabled it times out and the interface is dropped. ifconfig
> shows eth0 with no ipaddress during this time. A ping
> attempt shows trying to ping from 0.0.0.0. I guess all this
> makes sense. The interface comes up fine here at the office
> using the dhcpd that came with RedHat.
>
> Any ideas? I have a call into tech support but I thought I
> would try to get a jump on it. Do I need anything else for
> this to work? We have dsl here at the office but it uses
> static ipaddresses so the dhcp was not an issue.
>
> I find a lot of references to problems with pump but few
> specifics. What do I need to do to try a dhcp client rather
> than pump? /sbin/ifup calls pump directly Do I have to
> tweak ifup to get it to call dhcp instead?
>
> I assume that I cam manually start the interface using
> ifconfig -i eth0 up. and then call pump but that does not
> work either. I can see the lights on the bridge flicker and
> tcpdump reports 14 packets recieved but no output. calling
> tcpdump -i eth0 gives the error tht the interface is not up
> even though ifconfig is doing the no ip address thing. Is
> there some other tool to sniff the interface so I can see
> what is happening?
>
I know some systems require pppoe, that is "ppp over ethernet." That
may be what you need.
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