Once again, please CC me on all replies as I'm not subscribed to the list. Verizon called me at around 10pm last night to tell me, as I had suspected, that the problem was with one of their routers and not with anything I was doing.
So, my router now gets an IP address and everything's fine and dandy as far as my router's concerned. However, I can only do DNS on my Debian box if I'm logged in as root and, even then, only nslookup/host/etc or lynx work but not mozilla. If I try host as user, it tells me "Nameserver not running" and, if I run mozilla, netscape4 or opera, I have to type in IP addresses to be able to go anywhere, otherwise I get "foo.com not found" errors. Somebody suggested adding PEERDNS=yes to /etc/sysconfig/ifconfig-<ifname> but that doesn't appear to have worked. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. --- DvB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please CC me on all replies since I'm not currently > subscribed to the list. I start talking about Debian > specifically around paragraph 7. You might consider > the rest to be slightly OT. > > I just got Verizon DSL last week and have yet to > manage to get online. I was unsuccessful with my > roommate's WinXP laptop (possibly because Verizon's > install CD screwed it up. See > http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52756,00.html) > > > When trying to connect with my Netgear RT311 router, > I > get the following after configuring section 4 and > running the network test: > > Start dialing for node <Verizon>... > ### Hit any key to continue.### > $$$ DIALING dev=6 ch=0.......... > $$$ OUTGOING-CALL phone(fefffffffffffe) > $$$ Dial no answer > > I'll include my settings at the end of this message, > in case anybody has any experience with the RT311 > and > Verizon DSL. I have a "straight through" cable > between > my computer and a hub, which is connected to the > router with a crossover cable (I can get an IP > address > from the router and telnet to it, so I know that > part > works). I have the router connected to the DSL modem > with the cable Verizon provided. I assume it's a > straight through. > > I spent a whole morning talking to Verizon tech > support with the laptop and, when I called while > trying to get the router working, they informed me > that they only support Linksys routers and insisted > on > knowing which OS I was running, after which they, of > course, told me they "don't support Linux."(TM) > > After this, I went to my office at school and > downloaded the Debian pppoe and pppoeconf packages > (3.3-1.1 and 0.9.10.6, respectively). After > installing > them, I ran pppoeconf as root and was told that it > found one device, eth0 (a 3Com 3c95x, I think), > which > was fine. It then proceeded to "scan" or something > of > the sort, resulting in the following error message: > > "Sorry, I scanned 1 interface(s), but the Access > > Concentrator of your provider did not > respond. Please check your network and modem > cables. Another reason for the scan > failure may also be another running pppoe > process > which controls the modem." > > I have no idea what other pppoe process might be > running. I doubt that there is any. Yes, I did > remember to plug the computer directly into the DSL > modem rather than the hub/router before trying this. > > Here's my RT311 config that I said I would include: > > Menu 1 - General Setup > > System Name= myusername > Domain Name= verizon.net > Edit Dynamic DNS= No > > Menu 2 - WAN Setup > > MAC Address: > Assigned By= IP address > attached on LAN > IP Address= 192.168.0.2 > > Menu 3.2 - TCP/IP and DHCP Ethernet Setup > > DHCP= Server > Configuration: > Client IP Pool Starting > Address= > 192.168.0.1 > Size of Client IP Pool= 32 > Primary DNS Server= 0.0.0.0 > Secondary DNS Server= 0.0.0.0 > > > TCP/IP Setup: > IP Address= 192.168.0.1 > IP Subnet Mask= 255.255.255.0 > RIP Direction= Both > Version= RIP-1 > Multicast= None > > Menu 4 - Internet Access Setup > > ISP's Name= Verizon > Encapsulation= PPPoE > Service Type= N/A > My Login= > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My Password= ******* > Idle Timeout= 0 > > IP Address Assignment= Dynamic > IP Address= N/A > IP Subnet Mask= N/A > Gateway IP Address= N/A > Single User Account= Yes > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
