Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

On 26 August 2011 05:05, D G Teed <donald.teed@gmail.com> wrote:

On a re-read of what I wrote earlier, it might be a little confusing where I say you
need static network set up and then instruct on how to do DHCP. Perhaps I

can just make an assumption or two and give you some simple steps.

Assuming your ISP does use PPPoE, and you are using the router device
to connect your system to the ISP/Internet:

All ISPs in Australia employ PPPoE.
PPPoA is available, in many instances also.

1. Disable pppd. This is important. I think the command would be:

update-rc.d disable pppd

No, that's not it.
I'm getting a read-out that says it's not available.

2. Ensure eth0 network device will be able to get an IP from the router
via DHCP. This would be the entry in /etc/network/interfaces I mentioned before:

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

I placed this into that file and nothing has changed.
If anything, connectivity is a little worse.

3. Reboot to allow pppd to go away and dhcp client to kick in.

4. Verify your IP and routing are good:

route -n

(Here is mine:

route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface

192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1
0.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

)

Yours would be similar except 192.168.1 everywhere and likely eth0.

Bandit:/home/weaver# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0
10.20.21.72     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
Bandit:/home/weaver#

eth0 used to be in there.

ifconfig -a

Bandit:/home/weaver# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:60:c2:63:46
          inet6 addr: fe80::215:60ff:fec2:6346/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:2895 errors:0 dropped:7 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3480 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2053262 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:668068 (652.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:16

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:110.174.203.247 P-t-P:10.20.21.72 Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
          RX packets:262 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:177245 (173.0 KiB) TX bytes:88888 (86.8 KiB)

The upside is that I only have one ppp action .....at present.

I think the output of that is covered previously.

5. Start up a web browser and visit your Billion router at whatever IP the

router documentation says it is running on.

No, that still doesn't happen.
Though I'm posting this from that same laptop.

6. Configure the router for Internet (WAN) access according to the ISP's information.

7. The Internet should now work from the Debian system.

It always has.
The problem has been that access has been only intermittent and inconsistent when I have gained access.
I managed an aptitude cli update/safe-upgrade two nights ago, with about two dozen attempts. Download speeds varied from 8 Bytes/s to 1,686 Kb/s. All over the place.
But, at least we can be safe in assuming that the higher speeds weren't by way of your standard dial-up facility.