Fedora (FC4) / Ethernet / DHCP problem

[Jongi]

I am having a problem getting FC4 to activate my onboard Ethernet card. It sees the Ethernet card (Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC) but seems to have an issue getting an IP address for it. Fedora is trying to connect using DHCP. Can anyone help?

 

[Crash]

Let me see If I've got you right.

You want to connect your UTD to the Fedora Core 4 box? (Assuming this cause it's in the iBurst Thread)
Most linux distributions set the default on there Ethernet connections to DHCP.
So Fedora is looking for a DHCP server to get and IP address. Now you won't have one on your setup... so you'll probably get some kind of error message.

Remember, you need to connect the UTD to the Ethernet Port and use PPPOE and not DHCP. You are probably better off just setting an IP address on that interface so it doesn't give error messages.
I have about 10 mins experience using Fedora Core 4. But I'm going to grab the cd from work and install it at home. But there's prolly somewhere in the GUI where you can create a PPOE Connection.

Recap : DHCP won't get you onto the iBurst network. You need to setup a PPPOE connection in Fedora using the username and password you have from WBS.

If I've misunderstood you please correct me.

 

[Jongi]

You hit on the head. I think the other options besides dhcp are bootp and dailup. This is of the top of my head so I will need to check when I get home.

When you say set the IP at the interface, do you mean the FC4 interface? Or the Ethernet interface?

 

[Crash]

The ethernet interface. It stops you getting an error message when you start the box up, or stop and start the ethernet interface.
Also PPPOE will still work on an ethernet interface that has a static IP Address.

 

[Jongi]

I know that when i load SUSE it always picks up the same IP address. So I take it that would mean that it is probably already set and if I setup FC4 to load the PPPoE module everything should be cool?

 

[Crash]

You got it.

 

[Jongi]

Thanks. Will try it shortly.

 

[regardtv]

Actually PPPoE does not even require an IP address for the interface through which it connects.

Personally I'd recommend setting the interface connecting to the UTD to 192.168.250.11 / 255.255.255.0 .. That way you can access the functionality similar to that offered by iConnect - see their source or various threads for additional information.

 

[Crash]

RegardTV, Agreed.

Setting an IP Address gets around the whole
Bringing up Eth0 .... (Wait 20 Secs) [ Failed ]

You have to wait for the DHCP to decide there is no server.
Rather set a static IP and the interface comes straight up.

 

[Jongi]

I'll try that.

 

[Jongi]

Just to confirm, where in FC4 should I go to set that?

 

[Crash]

I'm installing my FC4 box now at work

You need to be root.
prolly set it in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
edit the ifcfg-eth0 file.

Or somewhere in the GUI.

 

[regardtv]

/etc/sysconfig/network-settings/ifcfg-eth?

no idea on using the RH Gui's ...

 

[Jongi]

Could you guide me step by step how you went about configuring iBurst. Even if it's through the CLI.

 

[regardtv]

Could you guide me step by step how you went about configuring iBurst. Even if it's through the CLI.

Assumptions:

eth0 connects to iBurst UTD

The simplest way to manage this is:
1 - Get a terminal
2 - su
3 - adsl-setup
- Follow the prompts
4 - Done

If you don't want to use adsl-setup or you'd like to experiment more...

Edit /etc/ppp/ppap-secrets
"username@wbs.co.za" * "password"

Edit/Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0
USERCTL=yes
BOOTPROTO=dialup
NAME=DSLppp0
DEVICE=ppp0
TYPE=xDSL
ONBOOT=yes
PIDFILE=/var/run/pppoe-adsl.pid
PING=.
PPPOE_TIMEOUT=80
LCP_FAILURE=3
LCP_INTERVAL=20
CLAMPMSS=1352
CONNECT_POLL=6
CONNECT_TIMEOUT=60
DEFROUTE=yes
SYNCHRONOUS=no
ETH=eth0
PROVIDER=DSLppp0
USER=username@wbs.co.za
PEERDNS=yes
DEMAND=no

Remember to set the "ETH" line to the ethernet interface your UTD is connected on.

Set the USER to username@wbs.co.za

You need to get a firewall setup and also remember that if you are going to use this as a gateway, enable ip forwarding and get nat going.

Hope this helps...