From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DujHn-0002cD-2r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 04:00:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6J3x58l008134; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:59:05 GMT Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (cumulus.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6J3tYuT027956 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 03:55:35 GMT Received: from orpheus (unknown [150.101.6.82]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67C37AD26 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:56:26 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with rp-pppoe/adsl... From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <42dc731d.vi5gt9a7RD+5emcB%dnebinger@cornholio.joat.com> References: <42dc731d.vi5gt9a7RD+5emcB%dnebinger@cornholio.joat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:28:30 +0930 Message-Id: <1121745510.22247.42.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1ab92f11-c116-4e3d-9fed-646e3f225b36 X-Archives-Hash: 1b5cd2f170314f352a1c3ecd1cf226f1 On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 23:27 -0400, dnebinger@joat.com wrote: > First routing. When I try to define it as the default route using "route add > -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev w1ad" (where w1ad is the device name), > route reports "SIOCADDRT: No such device", which is odd because ifconfig shows > it in the list. firstly, to add a default route I use # route add default gw secondly, I think you have to make the _other_ end of the connection the default route, not your end (ie, not your card, but the aDSL pppoe end) There are pppoe tools to do this. > Firewalling had no problems adjusting rules for the device, which again makes > me question the route error above. Did you try with a completely disabled firewall? > But when I make a copy of net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.w1ad you should symlink it, not make a copy. `ln -s`. > and then try to > start it it complains about not knowing how to start this type of interface; > if it's not supported, why add comments to /etc/conf.d/net about it? I think you need to make /etc/conf.d/net.w1ad to match. > Any assistance that you can throw my way will be *greatly* appreciated. I don't actually use pppoe, so I hope this helps you in some way. -- Iain Buchanan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list