Re: PPPOE / ADSL fails
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 22:02, mark@dulug.duke.edu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> What package contains 'adsl-start'? I couldn't find it...
I think it's part of the pppoe or pptp source (not the debian package. I don't
know why but it was taken out). just google for it.
Bye
>
> 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.
--
Haim
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