--------------8975F5B8D08EA1466F74D202 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all, Just wanted to say that Julian's advice worked, and I was finally able to get my DSL service working on my Mandrake box. It was easy once I knew which software to use. I guess I'll write off my hassles with the PPPoE client as an educational experience. I must say that it's easy to be mislead by postings you find on the Web, because they often don't have sufficient context to let you know if they're applicable to your own situation. I wasn't able to find the DHCP client software on my Mandrake RPM directory, so I downloaded the whole DHCP source tarball from www.dhcp.org. It took a while to build on this old box, and about as long to figure out the rather confusing documentation. I read the long man page on dhclient.conf, only to discover that for most applications, an empty configuration file will do! And it did. Thanks again, Vaughn Julian M Catchen wrote: > Vaughn, > > I don't know if this will help: > > I have Qwest DSL and I use an external Cisco 675 modem/router that they > gave me and an Intel PCI ethernet card using the eepro100 driver. All that > I need to connect to the Cisco router is a DHCP client. There is no need > for PPPoE at all. The only reason (and I may be wrong) that you would need > PPPoE is if you had one of the internal modems and were speaking PPP > directly from you box. However, you should be speaking ethernet to the > router and the router should be speaking PPP to the Qwest network. > > Anyway, not sure if this helps, but I use dhclient to connect several boxes > through a HUB to my Cisco router and have had no problems connecting to the > network. > > ----julian > -- ***************** Nakota Software, Inc. Custom Industrial Software Development --------------8975F5B8D08EA1466F74D202 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello all,
    Just wanted to say that Julian's advice worked, and I was finally able to get my DSL service working on my Mandrake box.  It was easy once I  knew which software to use.  I guess I'll write off my hassles with the PPPoE client as an educational experience.   I must say that it's easy to be mislead by postings you find on the Web, because they often don't have sufficient context to let you know if they're applicable to your own situation.
    I wasn't able to find the DHCP client software on my Mandrake RPM directory, so I downloaded the whole DHCP source tarball from www.dhcp.org.  It took a while to build on this old box, and about as long to figure out the rather confusing documentation.  I read the long man page on dhclient.conf, only to discover that for most applications, an empty configuration file will do!  And it did.

Thanks again,
Vaughn

Julian M Catchen wrote:

Vaughn,

I don't know if this will help:

I have Qwest DSL and I use an external Cisco 675 modem/router that they
gave me and an Intel PCI ethernet card using the eepro100 driver.  All that
I need to connect to the Cisco router is a DHCP client.  There is no need
for PPPoE at all.  The only reason (and I may be wrong) that you would need
PPPoE is if you had one of the internal modems and were speaking PPP
directly from you box.  However, you should be speaking ethernet to the
router and the router should be speaking PPP to the Qwest network.

Anyway, not sure if this helps, but I use dhclient to connect several boxes
through a HUB to my Cisco router and have had no problems connecting to the
network.

----julian
 

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