Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

[Larry Fletcher <de-41@lafn.org>]

In article <[🔎] 20080119231135.GA4768@debian-etch> you wrote:
> Hello Larry, I am running debian etch with verizon dsl. I also have the 
> Westell 6100 dsl modem. I believe that the suggestions you are getting in 
> regards to dumping everything having to do with pppoe are correct. 
> Have you gone into the connections settings of your browser and configured 
> it for direct connection to the internet?

It's been that way for a long time.

> Can you open any browser and type 
> in the address bar 192.168.1.1 and click go. This should bring you to the 
> connection summary page of the Westell modem. 

I have already tried 3 different browsers and none of them will
load the summary page.

> If you can not connect to this 
> page, could you provide, the output of `ifconfig`, `cat /etc/resolv.conf`, 
> `route`. 

I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know
how to fix it.  That's why I said it would probaby take me awhile
to figure it out DHCP.  I can't find `route`.

lotek:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

lotek:~# ifup eth0
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:18:3a:f7:c4:14
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:18:3a:f7:c4:14
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.46 -- renewal in 33461 seconds.

lotek:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search myhome.westell.com
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1

lotek:~# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:18:3A:F7:C4:14  
          inet addr:192.168.1.46  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::218:3aff:fef7:c414/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:113 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:181744 (177.4 KiB)  TX bytes:10831 (10.5 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdc00 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:351 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1518216 (1.4 MiB)  TX bytes:1518216 (1.4 MiB)