[wplug] Alltel PPPOE Broken

[Wise, Jeremey]

First off thanks to those who replied offlist to offer support. 

After redoing rp-pppoe install and failing to have any change, backing out
the kernel update...etc.... the interface came up on it's own yesterday
afternoon. Funny thing was that the DSL Efficient modem showed link and I
could log into the web mail system to prove the account was active so I was
thinking the culprit was the Linux system. I even called and tried to have
them do a line test but the 'couldn't check that CO's D-SLAM' Turns out it
wasn't. Should have known Linux would fail me.

Moral of this story: Don't trust link, don't be too quick to blame Linux.

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Wise, Jeremey
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 10:25 AM
To: 'wplug at wplug.org'
Subject: [wplug] Alltel PPPOE Broken

I have a RH 7.2 box running on SMB, iptables, and acting as a gateway to the
internet for the SMB environment. I did an update via 'up2date' and included
with that the kernel (2.4.20-20.7 ->2.4.20-28.7). I figured it to be no
problem but after a reboot DSL will no longer connect. One other note is the
I reapplied my iptables script prior to rebooting and it barked about a few
things being changed, so I went to reboot but the server did it on it's own.
After a fsck it booted without error but still won't work. I believe the
reboot and patches to be a non-related issue but you never know. 

Using rp-pppoe-3.5-1 and output is:
"adsl-start

........TIMEDOUT	 /usr/sbin/adsl-start:line191:9648 terminated
$CONNECT"$&">/dev/null 2>&1
"

I even reverted back to the old 2.4.20-20.7 kernel to see if that was the
issue with no luck. I reran the adsl-setup script to verify
username-password. I even logged on to the Alltel web managment interface
(from another location) to verify that the account was still active and
working. The DSL modem is an Efficient 5200 and the DSL light is on and
solid which implies the link is active.

Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeremey Wise (440)-519-6006
Systems Consultant(CNE,MCSE,CSE)
Agilysys, Inc.
Jeremey.Wise at Agilysys.com
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