Networking: troubleshooting pppoe connection issues.

mhonkieys · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Los Angeles

hey guys and girls, i have been told many times i should run gentoo due to the lacking in power of my boxes (less clutter=good thing) so i downloaded and burned the 1.4 LiveCd iso at a buddies house and went home to install my copy,i installed it easy enough (although compile time is a b*tch) i configured and installed my kernel easy enough as well as setup grub, i made sure i had rp-pppoe emerged in the chroot enviornment umounted everything and rebooted, everything appears cool, grub loads and boots the kernel, i get the login prompt and login, and attempt to setup adsl, "# adsl-setup" everything is good so far, "# adsl-start" " ..Conncted!" sweet... first things first i need to start downloading some stuff "# emerge lynx" after attempting to connect to the server for a few minutes the program tells me its having trouble resolveing the server, so i try ifconfig everything looks ok, so i assume it may be a problem with emerge, i type "# ping -c 3 www.google.com" again, no outgoing connection: i assume hrmm,
trouble resolving dns, i "# nano -w /etc/resolv.conf" and jot down an ip of one of my name servers and try to ping to no avail, now a bit bummed and two bags of sun flower seeds and a pack of smokes later i still cant figure it out, any advice?

thanks in advanced, doc.

["my momma told me, i better shop around: and i told her i will when she gets out in ten to fifteen"]

compu-tom · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject:

I too have rp-pppoe running and it works perfectly.

Try pinging the IP of google (216.239.39.99) instead of the DNS-name.
If this works, it is a DNS problem. Otherwise check the route:

mhonkieys · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 8 Location: Los Angeles