After installing fedora 8 I was having some problem in setting up an internet connection. My seniors as well as my friends gave me instructions to create the connection but it wasn’t a successful one. I told Kushal Da my problem and he asked me to contact John for the solutions. I am highly grateful to John for helping me out by giving me the correct commands to execute.At first he asked me about my previous connection procedure then he gathered information about my network setup by commands like “ifconfig”. Here are the commands:-
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A1:B0:02:43:52
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2a1:b0ff:fe02:4352/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:77 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:4838 (4.7 KiB) TX bytes:10351 (10.1 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Memory:ff8efc00-ff8efcff
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# su -
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# root password
-bash: 123456: command not found
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# adsl-setup
-bash: adsl-setup: command not found
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# rpm -q rp-pppoe
rp-pppoe-3.8-1.fc7
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# rpm -ql rp-pppoe | grep bin
/sbin/pppoe
/sbin/pppoe-connect
/sbin/pppoe-relay
/sbin/pppoe-server
/sbin/pppoe-setup
/sbin/pppoe-sniff
/sbin/pppoe-start
/sbin/pppoe-status
/sbin/pppoe-stop
/usr/sbin/adsl-start
/usr/sbin/adsl-stop
/usr/sbin/pppoe
/usr/sbin/pppoe-connect
/usr/sbin/pppoe-relay
/usr/sbin/pppoe-server
/usr/sbin/pppoe-setup
/usr/sbin/pppoe-sniff
/usr/sbin/pppoe-start
/usr/sbin/pppoe-status
/usr/sbin/pppoe-stop
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# pppoe-setup
Welcome to the PPPoE client setup. First, I will run some checks on
your system to make sure the PPPoE client is installed properly…
LOGIN NAME
Enter your Login Name (default root): username
INTERFACE
Enter the Ethernet interface connected to the PPPoE modem
For Solaris, this is likely to be something like /dev/hme0.
For Linux, it will be ethX, where ‘X’ is a number.
(default eth0): eth0
Do you want the link to come up on demand, or stay up continuously?
If you want it to come up on demand, enter the idle time in seconds
after which the link should be dropped. If you want the link to
stay up permanently, enter ‘no’ (two letters, lower-case.)
NOTE: Demand-activated links do not interact well with dynamic IP
addresses. You may have some problems with demand-activated links.
Enter the demand value (default no): no
DNS
Please enter the IP address of your ISP’s primary DNS server.
If your ISP claims that ‘the server will provide dynamic DNS addresses’,
enter ’server’ (all lower-case) here.
If you just press enter, I will assume you know what you are
doing and not modify your DNS setup.
Enter the DNS information here: server
PASSWORD
Please enter your Password:
Please re-enter your Password:
USERCTRL
Please enter ‘yes’ (three letters, lower-case.) if you want to allow
normal user to start or stop DSL connection (default yes):
FIREWALLING
Please choose the firewall rules to use. Note that these rules are
very basic. You are strongly encouraged to use a more sophisticated
firewall setup; however, these will provide basic security. If you
are running any servers on your machine, you must choose ‘NONE’ and
set up firewalling yourself. Otherwise, the firewall rules will deny
access to all standard servers like Web, e-mail, ftp, etc. If you
are using SSH, the rules will block outgoing SSH connections which
allocate a privileged source port.
The firewall choices are:
0 - NONE: This script will not set any firewall rules. You are responsible
for ensuring the security of your machine. You are STRONGLY
recommended to use some kind of firewall rules.
1 - STANDALONE: Appropriate for a basic stand-alone web-surfing workstation
2 - MASQUERADE: Appropriate for a machine acting as an Internet gateway
for a LAN
Choose a type of firewall (0-2): 0
Start this connection at boot time
Do you want to start this connection at boot time?
Please enter no or yes (default no):yes
** Summary of what you entered **
Ethernet Interface: eth0
User name: ………………………
Activate-on-demand: No
DNS addresses: Supplied by ISP’s server
Firewalling: NONE
User Control: yes
Accept these settings and adjust configuration files (y/n)? y
Adjusting /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
Adjusting /etc/ppp/chap-secrets and /etc/ppp/pap-secrets
(But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/chap-secrets.bak)
(But first backing it up to /etc/ppp/pap-secrets.bak)
Congratulations, it should be all set up!
Type ‘/sbin/ifup ppp0′ to bring up your xDSL link and ‘/sbin/ifdown ppp0′
to bring it down.
Type ‘/sbin/pppoe-status /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0′
to see the link status.
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# pppoe-start
[root@unknown00a1b0024352 ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A1:B0:02:43:52
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2a1:b0ff:fe02:4352/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:58 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:93 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5929 (5.7 KiB) TX bytes:11475 (11.2 KiB)
Interrupt:19 Memory:ff8efc00-ff8efcff
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4899 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3723888 (3.5 MiB) TX bytes:3723888 (3.5 MiB)
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:117.201.96.168 P-t-P:117.201.96.1 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1460 Metric:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:258 (258.0 b) TX bytes:370 (370.0 b)
virbr0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.122.1 Bcast:192.168.122.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:5888 (5.7 KiB)
