Help with pppoe
I'm not sure which mailing list to use, but since I am running etch
testing I'm posting here.
My computer has only 1 network adapter, which has 2 IP addresses, 1
for Internet and 1 for local network. My setup looks like this:
ISP -----adsl connection (pppoe) ------ network hub ------------- my computer
|-------------------another computer
I use an ADSL connection to connect to my ISP, and it uses PPPoE. I've
just installed debian, so upon arriving at the apt sources setup
screen, I switched to another terminal and ran pppoeconf. I accepted
all the defaults. I started the connection and realized that the
default route (which uses my computer's local network address,
192.168.2.1 for gateway) was not getting replaced by the route of the
adsl connection. So I opened up /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider and added
replacedefaultroute just about defaultroute, so that it looked like:
replacedefaultroute
defaultroute
Other than this, I did not change any other configs. It all worked
well until I restarted the computer. after this, I realized that every
time I connected, /etc/resolv.conf (which originally contained my
computer's local network address for dns server) would be correctly
replaced by my isp's DNS servers, but only for 5 seconds or so. I
could use the Internet normally during these few seconds. After this,
it would suddenly be replaced with my computer's address, and I could
no longer resolve dns names (although I could still use IP addresses).
If I tried to manually enter the dns server addresses, the same thing
would happen: it would all be replaced after several seconds, leading
me to think that some other program was interfering.
I explained a lot about my network because I think perhaps that having
2 addresses on the same adapter might have confused Linux, but I'm not
sure. I'm new, so please give me simple instructions. thank you in
advance
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