[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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