[PLUG] Qwest DSL Blues: Help

michaelj at golgi.net michaelj at golgi.net
Thu Jul 11 01:47:49 UTC 2002


Yesterday my Cisco 678 router arrived in the mail. Since it was so HOT
outside today I figured I would set up my DSL.

... 6 Hours Later ...

Still no DSL. Are any of you successfully using a Cisco 678 router on
Linux? Can you help me out?

Specs
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RH 7.1
Kernel 2.4.2-2
Cisco 678 Router
3Com 95x NIC
DSL provider: Qwest
ISP provider: Qwest
Protocol: ppp
IP address: dynamic

Steps
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1) I started with the DSL HOW-TO
   http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/index.html
2) Since I am using PPP I then moved to the Roaring Penguine
   http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe/
   on this page I read that if I have a router then
   I may not need PPPoE, I should use DHCP.
3) I then hit the PLUG archive and found a thread on
   the Cisco 678. http://plug.skylab.org/200108/msg00194.html
   This message referenced some other docs that are no
   longer available and I was unable to find a cached version
   http://www.users.qwest.net/~agondor/docs/678/678.html
4) Back to google, and I found a rather helpful page
   http://www.getnet.com/~awagner/Page4.html
   With the information in this page I was able to
   minicom into the router and set some things up,
   however this article was for a static IP using rfc1483
   I have a dynamic IP with dynamic ip but there wasn't
   information specific to this.
5) After configuring the router I restarted my network
   with eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp. It just hung on the eth0
   startup and was unable to find an IP.

What I don't know (pretty much everything)
-----------------
- I don't know how to correctly configure the router.

- I don't know what to do on my workstation once the
  router is working properly.


Thanks in advanced-
Michael


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