On Tuesday 16 Aug 2005 17:23, michael wrote: > > okay, it should be my demon login. but althought it says > > ADSL line is up (...) > > it then does several > > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0... > > ending with > > No offers received > > > > but once in to X I can do 'sudo pon speedtch' and am away... so it seems > > am just missing something in the boot scripts.... > > so the new questions are > > a) how to circumvent having to do 'pon' by hand each time > b) what to do about the dhcpdiscover msgs (they take ages too) > c) and what does > Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP > mean when I do do 'pon' by hand? > > I'm busy reading the pppd man pages but it's heavy going! > > thanks, michael > > > ta, M > > > > -- > > Michael Bane > > Atmospheric Physics Group > > University of Manchester > > -- > Michael Bane > Atmospheric Physics Group > University of Manchester
Hello, again. (Sorry I've taken so long to get back to you - bit of a personal nightmare.) Anyway - the problems with DHCPDISCOVER are there because you are not using eth0 for dial up - you are using ppp0 eth0 should be your network card in your machine. If you are not using your network card, then comment out the relevant eth0 section in /etc/network/interfaces . If you don't want to change the file, then you can just Ctrl-C the discover things when you have waited long enough (e.g. after the first failure)/ With my install I then create a file called: /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot with the following contents: #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH exec pppd call demon-adsl That should be it, Cheers, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
