[PLUG] Qwest DSL Blues: Help

Kyle Accardi sandbox at pacifier.com
Thu Jul 11 02:51:51 UTC 2002


Another point,
	Qwest uses PPPoA.  You may find some help here
http://www.dslreports.com/sitesearch
and search on "qwest 678"


--
Kyle Accardi
who really has a 675 and is blaming the heat.



I wrote:
> First question: Is the WAN Link led on the 678 lit?  If not, qwest may 
> not have turned on your circuit yet.  If it is then success is imminent.
> 
> My 678 is running in bridged mode, and it looks like you need to be 
> running in routed mode.  The ISP (Qwest in your case) should tell you 
> for sure.
> 
> Betting someone on the list has more direct experience with your 
> particular configuration.  It'll work fine...
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyle Accardi
> 
> 
> michaelj at golgi.net wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> -----
>> 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
>> -----
>> 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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