[arachne] Re: Broadband connections

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On Friday 19 October 2007, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> > How many readers of this list have broadband connections?
> >
> > How many still have only dial-up?
>
> I have DSL since April 2001, and used it with Arachne ever since.
>
> Compared to the trouble I went through to set up the dial-up connection,
> setting up Arachne to work with DSL was surprisingly easy. I only needed
> to load the packet driver for my Ethernet card and configure the PPPoE
> driver (PEPA), and it worked.
>
> If Arachne (or rather WatTCP) would not have that bandwidth cap at cca
> 30 KB/s, it would be working flawlessly.
>
> Regards,
>
Dear Udo
Assume that you use Tonline and Tonline uses PPPoE.
My modem/ router wants to be served with PPPoA, not that it mattered much 
before.
I worked with bootp and tcpinfo.exe informs me that DHCP, BOOTP and RARP all 
failed and no IP-addresses are found. On the Linux boxes and on the Baslinux 
on the same machine everything works fine. Go figuring. On the logfile from 
the ADSL install program I am informed of activity. It informs me:
sending OFFER to 192.168.2.102 (which is the address given to the networkcard 
of the Arachne box)
If I insert all the information gathered on the ADSL install system in the 
wattcp.cfg file and exclude the bootp part, I do not get any reaction at all. 

This data from the setup program are not very clear because they use their own 
expressions.
under

INTERNET
Wan IP 222.124.79.152
subnet Mask 255.255.255.0
gateway 203.130.222.255
Primary DNS 202.134.2.5
Secondary DNS 202.134.0.155

under

GATEWAY 
IP Address  192.168.2.1
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
DHCP Server enabled
Firewall Enabled


The IP address under GATEWAY is the address I have to use in order to access 
my ADSL modem router setup.

The three computers now connected are respectively 192.168.2.100, 101 and 102.
The 102 is the Arachne box.
 
After two days and nights with this box I am at the end of my Latin.
Any usefull tips. By the way. Getting rid of the firewall does not help.
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