Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails

[mark@dulug.duke.edu]

Hi All,

What package contains 'adsl-start'? I couldn't find it...

I too can't connect with my new PPPoE/DSL setup.

Thanks,
Mark 

ronin2@bellatlantic.net wrote:

On 04 Apr 2003 12:04:18 -0500
bxf4@psu.edu (Brian P. Flaherty) wrote:

Both of you should try adsl-start as an alternative.  I had been using
pppd at boot-time to get my DSL connection up and it has worked for
months.  However, about a week ago, it stopped working.  I fought with
it for a while.  Just to see what happened, I tried adsl-start and it
worked immediately.  I have not had time to figure out why this is,
but it worked for me.  I have been using that for the past week or so,
until I can figure out why.

Thanks for that. I'll give it a try.


By the way, I haven't been able to access news.verizon.net either
since this happened.  It doesn't respond to ping or anything.  I also
cannot ping it from other machines, so it seems down to me.  But it
seems strange that this occurred with the other change.  HTH.



That's weird. I waited to send you that server name until I had connected to
it and updated my list of newsgroups.

Today I can't ping either news servers.

FWIW, Verizon's mail servers have been like yo-yo's the past few days -- up
and down.