On 20 August 2011 05:56, Camaleón
<noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
Wait... what are those "pppx" connections? Where are they coming from?
Are you using another device to get connected on Internet?
The only other device I've used is the borrowed XP laptop I used to set up the modem in the first place. That was a wireless connection, even though I plugged the cable in. I was just so glad to get a connection, I let it go. Perhaps it's a hangover from that?
> And I can't see the address anywhere. Also, according to the manual, the
> mask address is supposed to be 225.25.225.0
>
> There is something evil happening.
> I can't actually remember adjusting anything, yet the connection, far
> from good, is the best I've had so far.
The above data is very clear: your ethernet device has lost (again) its
configuration. what I dunno is what are the remainder ppp connections :-?
Can you explain how did you connect your windows computer to Internet?
What steps did you follow? Maybe this way we can understand what is going
on...
That's all there was.
Just the one machine, with a wireless config to set up the WAN, but with the ethernet cable plugged in.
Possibly, with windows typical interference, it's configured the modem with his account details and I'm getting free access?
The pressure builds. I've got to sort this out!
I took a look at dmesg to see what that could tell me about what was going on.
First in the sequence I got this:
[ 2.129507] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(BCM95705A50) rev 3003] (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) MAC address 00:15:60:c2:63:46
[ 2.142802] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5705 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[0])
Which seems to suggest that the non-free Tygon firmware is involved. I thought that was just for hard drives.
Further down in the sequence I get this:
[ 252.853480] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso5.bin"
[ 252.855483] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: TSO capability disabled
[ 252.994052] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 253.367980] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[ 254.103297] process `sysctl' is using deprecated sysctl (syscall) net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time; Use net.ipv6.neigh.default.retrans_time_ms instead.
[ 254.471468] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 254.489770] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 254.515823] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
[ 256.159728] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex
[ 256.159732] tg3 0000:02:0e.0: eth0: Flow control is on for TX and on for RX
[ 256.160083] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 256.170762] fuse init (API version 7.16)
[ 257.872663] input: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device as /devices/virtual/input/input9
[ 266.944025] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 267.224323] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[ 271.333079] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC="" DST=110.174.203.247 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=108 ID=256 PROTO=TCP SPT=6000 DPT=1433 WINDOW=16384 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
And at last we arrive at this - and if it applies, I would have no idea.
I just wish they'd write this stuff in English.
[ 568.682330] AIF:Dropped INPUT packet: IN=ppp1 OUT= MAC= SRC="" DST=110.174.203.247 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=116 ID=256 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=12200 DPT=8909 WINDOW=8192 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
[ 990.383838] gs[7403]: segfault at 40 ip b70f70f2 sp bffce1a0 error 4 in libgs.so.9.02[b6f56000+4e5000]
[ 999.945440] AIF:PRIV UDP broadcast: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:b8:ff:61:ee:d3:40:08:00 SRC="" DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=54518 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308
[ 1001.964640] AIF:PRIV UDP broadcast: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:b8:ff:61:ee:d3:40:08:00 SRC="" DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=54519 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308
[ 2137.861131] AIF:PRIV UDP broadcast: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:23:12:7c:d2:9b:08:00 SRC="" DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=52104 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308
[ 2139.057008] AIF:PRIV UDP broadcast: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:23:12:7c:d2:9b:08:00 SRC="" DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=52105 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308
[ 2154.619171] AIF:PRIV UDP broadcast: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:23:12:7c:d2:9b:08:00 SRC="" DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=52110 PROTO=UDP SPT=68 DPT=67 LEN=308
And that's it! 'Life in the bitter sea', as the Chinese say, and I'm drowning.
Thanks for staying with this.
Regards,
Weaver.