Here’s a really strange situation. I subscribed to AT&T DSl a year ago and was running 9.3, switched to 11.0, all worked - up until now. Now the connection is out as much as is on. The only support you can get from AT&T is their dopey call centers - and Linux is NOT supported, so I had to boot into XP. They had me: a) hard reset the Innoband 8012-G1 Modem; b) NOT reconnect via the browser based interface; c) connect ONLY using their dopey software. They said that the connection, that way, is much more reliable. The fourth LED (internet) using this procedure is out! Seemed to be a good connection.
Netstat -r shows differences in connection: w/ ATT software connect, there is an additional interface! 0x20005…00 53 45 00 00 00…WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface w/ an IP of 192.168.1.10 (the modem is 192.168.1.1). So, connecting w/ their software is doing something different.
Now we boot to 11.0 Fourth LED comes on, and the connection is poor.
Here is the really bizarre part: I had never configured the DSL modem! SuSe was not aware that there was this device! It was completely transparent! And it worked well! Then I go to Yast, configure the DSL modem, Provider, and Kinternet. Now there is NO internet connection! I have to delete the DSL configuration to make a connection!
hwinfo --dsl probed for PPoE, and found nothing!
So, where is this additional interface (in XP) coming from? If I ping the modem (192.168.1.1) the response is ~ 3 ms (obviously local) If I ping 192.168.1.10, the response is ~ 54 ms - not local.
The computer that is connected to the DSL Modem is acting as a router for an internal network. In Linux, I frequently cannot call up the DSl Modem in a browser - that looks like a local problem, but I don’t believe it is.
So, here is what I have: a) All worked well w/ SuSe 9.3 & 11.0 until just lately. b) The DSL modem was NEVER configured in Linux. c) The connection is great in XP w/ the Internet LED OUT!
I think there is something to be learned here, but I haven’t figured it out yet. How do I reproduce the ATT software connection in Linux? Is the additional interface (PPP/SLIP) somewhere on the internet? Any ideas?
Hi
Are you not able to configure the modem (via web interface
http://192.168.1.1) to do all the DSL side, then the router can act as a
dhcp server etc and just issue out an ip address?
Then you don’t need to run a ppoe client, just hook up the ethernet.
Also on openSUSE disable IPV6 system wide (do a forum search for this).
I run my modem in bridged configuration to a linksys wireless router
and just configure that for all the DSL side.
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Thanks for the response. It seems the more I think I know, the less I actually do know.
The DSL modem is a very simple affair w/ no adjustment in configuration possible. You can turn it on, connect, disconnect, and that’s all. The computer it is connected to (via ethernet) is acting as a router w/ a 2nd NIC - the entire network uses fixed IP’s. The network is mostly hardwired w/ a Belkin Wireless repeater broadcasting WiFi. Only the NIC connected to the DSL modem is looking for an IP addy.
I disabled IPV6, and, in /etc/sys*/networks/routes I reproduced the response from netstat -r in WinXP. So far, it works. I have verified that the phantom interface 192.168.1.10 is on the internet. We shall see.
Hi
Sounds like your using internet connection sharing via the XP machine?
Can you draw a basic picture of your setup and post it (imagebam.com)?
Sounds like someone or something is using your wireless perhaps?
Can you post the make/model number of your modem?
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“Sounds like your using internet connection sharing via the XP machine?”
This is a dual boot (really lame) Dell machine. It was immediately loaded w/ SuSe 9.3
When I purchased DSL service, I wanted access for the other 6 computer here, so we set 9.3 to act as a router.
Eventually migrated to 11.0 w/ 9.3 as a backup partition. NEVER configured (w/ yast) the DSL connection.
It just worked - until now. When the DSL started going out. I had to boot to WinXP because AT&t does NOT support Linux.
Using their procedure, an additional gateway was added (192.168.1.10). I was looking to reproduce this new condition
in Linux.
“Can you draw a basic picture of your setup and post it (imagebam.com)?”
Sorry, I don’t understand the question. Do you mean screenshots of the yast configuration panels?
“Sounds like someone or something is using your wireless perhaps?”
The Belkin is hardwired to the hub. WiFi allows access by ~ 3 other machines. Security is by MAC addy. Only entered MAC addys are allowed to connect. Even tho this hardware got bad reviews on Amazon, I have found it to work well. It is a Belkon Model # F5D7132 - just a dumb repeater.
“Can you post the make/model number of your modem?”
Innoband 8012-G1, supplied by AT&T. No controls, no options. Just ON or OFF.
This is what’s troubling me:
If I set up a DSL modem in yast, the whole system completely breaks. If I delete it, I am back to a working system.
Whatever I can do in Windoz, I should be able to do in Linux. The AT&T software commanded connect seemed to add an additional interface (WAN (PPP/SLIP) Interface w/ an IP of 192.168.1.10) What??
I did a cut & paste and replicated the netstat -r result in routes. So far, it seemed to work. I have my connection, and, it is no longer dropping. Why???
I’m the jackass who always has to know the why. The DSL service here became unusable - what changed - why - why should a “fix” work in windoz - how do we apply that to Linux?
To me, it looks like AT&t has dedicated an additional “interface” to talk to the internet, and their software added that new gateway to the route lookup. Is my assumption on target?
No.
Draw your hardware: modem, computers, their NICs. Show connections, input-output cables.
i check the manual for the dsl modem, it is pretty standard stuff.
the manual can be found here
http://innoband.com/documents/8012_G1_Manual.pdf
do the 192.168.1.1 this will take you to the dsl modem’s configurations page. you can put your username and password in on the PPPoE login page if it isnt in place to start with.
make sure your network settings are for Dynamic Address and DHCP are set.
make sure your firewall is on for the system as modem will connect you directly to the internet (most likely as i’ve not read into the manual enough to find out if it nats)
what the techs are telling you to do is from their scripts (the real script kiddies!!!) and cannot help you beyond that.
once the username and password on the modem is set it should log you on. (maybe a restart is needed, might depend on the modem)
also a good idea is to restart you machine as well, sometimes this clears things up as well.