Linux Network Config - SAIX/IS

[qwert]

Hi Folks

A quick question for the Linux pros out there. I am battling to get my new Fedora Core 6 machine to connect to a SAIX ADSL line, but it is no problem doing so on my Internet Solutions connection - I am using it right now.

My IS account is one of those ´local only´ packages, while the SAIX account is a regular 3GB plan.

I am not using any fancy routing system. My linux box is connected to a switch, and that connects to the outside world with an old Alcatel ADSL modem (circa 2003). Once before I had these problems with an old Red Hat 8 machine, and worked around it by adding a ´route´ to the ppp device that used the SAIX server ip (used to be 165.146.0.1) as its gateway. This also worked with IS - a gateway of someting like 196.209.x.x .

Anyway, now with my new improved Linux I connect to IS without any of these fiddles, but nothing seems to get me going on SAIX. (It does actually seem to connect when I ifconfig - it shows a 41.x.x.x address is assigned to me, but no traffic seems to get through).

I figure there must be thousands of Linux users out there who must be using ADSL via SAIX. Am I doing something unspeakably stupid, or are Telkom now pulling some move that needs a workaround. (My windows machines are happily using the same setup - pc to switch to modem with each machine connecting to the net independantly).

Any bright ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks

 

[qwert]

Cracked it

Hi All

Just fixed my own problem by comparing my config on Fedora to my old Red Hat 8 box. Turns out that for once I shouldn flame Telkom/SAIX, its the RedHat/Fedora interface that is a biut buggy.

I noticed that my old set up has both the telkom and IS accounts shown as ppp0 and the new one had them as ppp0 and ppp1. It reminded me that when I set them up back then that I had copied (cloned) one connection to create the second one (editing the details as required), and not gone through the wizard to create it. This made both of them ppp0.

When I did the same on the new box it worked. Obviously you can only use either one or the other at any specific time, and it seems that Fedora has a bug in that it won allow you to connect with a ppp1 device, only a ppp0 (rather stupid because the wizard automatically created it, not me).

Anyway, thats the advice for anyone that stumbles upon this - clone a second pppoe connection (and edit it), dont create a new one.

This info is almost impossible to find out there on the web, probably because in most countries the concept of having multiple dsl accounts is daft - you just have one big one with no cap and no reason to switch between local and international bandwidth packages like us poor suckers in SA.

Cheers