[oclug] Router problem

[The Linux Doctor]

Alternately, if the ADSL modem is set to log onto the Internet itself
using PPP and the LAN is set to DHCP, one can tell the DI-604 to use
DHCP over it's WAN connection.  This has the advantage of allowing you
to switch from the router to direct connect without having to do any
reconfigurations of the boxes.

>>>--fja->


On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:06:42 -0500
Andy Civil <andycivil at gmail.com> wrote:

> Perhaps I'm being too simplistic, but it seems to me that the likely
> problem is that your modem and your router are both trying to "log
> in" using the PPP. As far as I know, the "normal" thing is for the
> router to be responsible for initiating the PPP connection. If you're
> saying that you can connect using only the modem, then that's wrong,
> unless you're using some software PPP connection on the computer.
> 
> The normal thing would be to connect a computer to the modem, go to
> its setup page, and set whatever VPI/VCI settings you need, and set
> it in "bridge mode". This does NOT get you on the Internet :-)
> 
> Then you put your router in the chain - note that at this point, you
> cannot "see" the modem any more - the router sees you addressing a
> 192.168.x.x address, and does not put it to the WAN side. Now you set
> up the router to make your PPP connection. When all is well, it
> should tell you that it's connected, and any device on your LAN can
> connect simply using DHCP. When I recently played with a USB flash
> install of puppy linux, there was an Internet setup wizard which
> offered to try to make a connection using "eth0" - which it duly
> succeeded in doing...
> 
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