[ale] PPPOE (Bellsouth)

[dcorbin at imperitek.com (David Corbin)]

I'm trying to get Bellsouth FastAccess DSL up an running.

I have a Debian system with the Roaring Penguin pppoe client.  I have an 
ethernet based ADSL modem.

It appears to me (and I've found it say this in at least one place, you 
need to have an "IP-less" ethernet connetion going first).

I do "ifconfig eth1" and it responds:
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:60:B0:00:B2:43 
          inet addr:24.53.117.149  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6260378 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2730933 errors:1497 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1497
          collisions:11140 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xf8e0

But if I do an "ifconfig" immediately after that, eth1 is listed.  If I 
do one 3 seconds later, it's gone.

I *think* this may be contrinbuting to my problems getting DSL up.

Any ideas?


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