[gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

[gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi,


I recently did update my machine (didn't do so for a year <mehide> :) .

It is likely that I messed up some things because I'm still not that 
familiar with portage/emerge as I should be, but I call this "learning 
by doing" ;-) .

Today I'd ask for help concerning adsl.

My machine automatically connects during boot, and this works great. 
When I shutdown the machine, I get an error that adsl doesn't seem to 
run.

When trying to do an adsl-stop manually, I evenly get this message:

adsl-stop: No ADSL connection appears to be running

adsl-status is a bit more verbose:

adsl-status: Link is down (can't read pppoe PID 
file /var/run/pppoe.conf-adsl.pid.pppoe)

And in fact, the file that the script is looking for simply doesn't 
exist:

ls /var/run/ | grep adsl

63-adsl.pid
63-adsl.pid.pppd
63-adsl.pid.pppoe
pppoe.conf-adsl.pid.start

I checked /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf and found the following lines:

CF_BASE=`basename $CONFIG`
PIDFILE="/var/run/$CF_BASE-adsl.pid"

It appears to me that adsl-start creates another file that is searched 
by adsl-status or adsl-stop. But I wonder how this can be fixed?

I really prefer to be able to kill my adsl connection without shutting 
down the machine, so any hints (even RTFM) are much appreciated.


Best regards


ce
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Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

[Walter Dnes]

On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:28:40PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote

> My machine automatically connects during boot, and this works great.
> When I shutdown the machine, I get an error that adsl doesn't seem
> to run.

  I have a combined ADSL modem/router that logs on and coverts ADSL into
ethernet.  The only difference from ordinary LANs is that I have to run
with MTU 1454.  The ifconfig command gives output like...

eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:64:77:57
      inet addr:192.168.123.252  Bcast:192.168.123.255  Mask:255.255.255.248
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1454 Metric:1

  I have no ADSL support compiled in.  Instead, my eth0 connects to the
ADSL modem/router.  Is your system possibly set up like that?

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Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

[Christoph Eckert]

Hi Walter,


> > My machine automatically connects during boot, and this works
> > great. When I shutdown the machine, I get an error that adsl
> > doesn't seem to run.
>
>   I have a combined ADSL modem/router that logs on and coverts ADSL
> into ethernet.  The only difference from ordinary LANs is that I have
> to run with MTU 1454.  The ifconfig command gives output like...
>
> eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:EA:64:77:57
>       inet addr:192.168.123.252  Bcast:192.168.123.255
>  Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1454
> Metric:1
>
>   I have no ADSL support compiled in.  Instead, my eth0 connects to
> the ADSL modem/router.  Is your system possibly set up like that?

thanks for the hint, but my ethernet card is directly connected to the 
ADSL modem. Furthermore it worked perfectly until I did some emerge 
--update world. I guess I haven't been carefully enough when running 
etc-update :( .

Anyone some further hints?


Best regards


ce

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Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

[Dale]

Christoph Eckert wrote:

>
>
>thanks for the hint, but my ethernet card is directly connected to the 
>ADSL modem. Furthermore it worked perfectly until I did some emerge 
>--update world. I guess I haven't been carefully enough when running 
>etc-update :( .
>
>Anyone some further hints?
>
>
>Best regards
>
>
>ce
>
>  
>
I don't have any experience with DSL, regretfully, but have you checked 
/etc/conf.d/net to see if it was changed?  Was it set up as a gateway or 
DHCP and it changed that?

Just a thought.

Dale
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