Message: 23 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:11:59 -0400 From: Dan Halbert halbert@everyzing.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & config not found Message-ID: 469830EF.3080601@everyzing.com

mailing-lists@computer2.com wrote: I am frustrated. This is a dual boot box, Win XP (Spanish) and CentOS 4.4. The phone company man came today and installed ADSL to the WinXP

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Dan wrote: If you have a router, then the ADSL connection you have is handled by the router, and is invisible to you, on the LAN side of the

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Thank you! I was busy and gone most of the day yesterday and didn't touch the box after about 7 A.M. Early this morning, I came in here and in two (2) minutes, the box was online in Linux. :-)

The problem was that I'd seen in System Tools > Internet Configuration Wizard (internet-druid) and I set up an xDSL connection ppp0, which was not necessary, as you wrote, because the ADSL Router the phone company man brought does the log in.

After I deleted the ppp0, I set up eth0 again, to get my IP from the ISP via DHCP and I put in the 2 IP numbers for their DNS servers, restarted the Network and I am online! :-)

I knew this was something extremely simple, but it was Friday the 13th and to use Johnny's phrase, I had a cubic butt load of frustration. :-)

This will hopefully make it easier for me to get Devil-Linux configured, for my Firewall/Router box.

Walt Reed: I get the Mailing List Digest, which will come in about 90 minutes, but I looked at the archives this morning and I also saw your post, which is much appreciated. I am going to try to use Devil-Linux and if I can't get that working, I will use IPCop, for my Firewall/Router.

Thanks to both of you for replying to me and to everyone who participates in this great mailing list! Lanny