Topic: Bell High Speed

[Peter]

Has anyone configured their E-Smith for use with Bell High Speed with dynamic IP? If so how?

Thanks.

[James Arlen]

Yup, sucessfully installed with dynamic IP from Bell Advantage Business Network - same as Sympatico residential.

Step one: arrange dyndns.org account and everydns.net account
Step two: arrange to transfer domain to everydns nameservers
Step three: install e-smith using dedicated option - PPPoE connection type - dyndns.org service.
Step four: Test internet connectivity - this will activate your IP on your dyndns.org account
Step five: Set up your everydns to point www.yourdomain.xxx and yourdomain.xxx as CNAME to youraccount.dyndns.org.  Set up at least one MX record pointing to youraccount.dyndns.org
Step six: Set up a virtual domain under e-smith with yourdomain.xxx as the domain name and an ibay for the website.

That's it - it was dead simple and so far I'm liking the ease of maintenance that this option provides.

[Peter]

Thanks for you reply James.

I guess my question was poorly worded as it was addressing the more fundamental consideration of just getting the service to work in E-Smith.

I tried using the PPPoE option for my connection but the one thing I noticed in my server configuration was that E-Smith had assigned an IP to my external NIC which did not make sense.

Anyways, I tried using it with my username@on.aibn.com and password and the Test Connection failed repeatedly. I am certain it has something to do with the static IP being assigned to the external NIC.

I also tried using connection option 1 but that did not work either.

Do you have any advice/info on this matter? Thanks again.

[James Arlen]

Are you sure that you have your nic's straight - it's possible that they are in the wrong order - try viewing the log file to see if the connection is being properly made - or reboot the machine and watch while it starts for the "starting pppoe" line - does it show pass or fail?

Once the server is up, do a "Review Configuration" from the webmanagement panel and email it to me - I'll see if there is anything strange.

J

[Peter]

Well, the internal NIC was to have a 192.168.1.2 address which I can
successfully ping with the server up over the LAN and which I can see in the configuration so I don't think it is a swap issue.

I should also say that when I use a dial up account, everything seems to
work fine.

The other sugestions I will have to try later in the week. I have to work
round this office's work hours to try such things an I am using the
original proxy until I can get e-smith working with the ADSL.

Thanks again for taking the time.

[Paul Nesbit]

Peter wrote:
> [...]
> I tried using the PPPoE option for my connection but the one
> thing I noticed in my server configuration was that E-Smith
> had assigned an IP to my external NIC which did not make sense.

Why do you think this?  If your PPPoE connection fails, your local IP will be brought up on interface eth0.  

> Anyways, I tried using it with my username@on.aibn.com and
> password and the Test Connection failed repeatedly.

I don't believe that sympatico uses the form userid@whatever as a userid.  To connect to sympatico you must use your assigned userid.  Sympatico can confirm the correct userid for your connection.

HTH,
Paul

[Andrew Roberts]

Paul Nesbit wrote:

> I don't believe that sympatico uses the form userid@whatever
> as a userid.  To connect to sympatico you must use your
> assigned userid.  Sympatico can confirm the correct userid
> for your connection.

I use the Sympatico (home) service in my residence, and I have my PPPoE set up to use username@sympatico.ca and my connection works fine.  

At the office we use the AIBN Bell service with a Netgear RT311 and we need to use username@on.aibn.com to get access.  Unfortunately, Bell is never that interested in helping with "unsupported" systems (i.e. anything besides windows/mac).

Cheers,

Andrew

[Peter]

Andrew,

Thanks for your response

Yes..I have a different aDSL modem ( I assumed the Netgear RT311 is your aDSL modem ) but the login format username@on.aibn.com is what I tried and it failed.

The one thing I noticed when I reviewed my configuration in the console is that it is assigning a staic IP. I am using connnection option 3 PPPoE. Is that the one you are using?

[Peter]

Well..I reinstalled the server with two different cards in the event I was mixing up the cards previously because they were identical. And for whatever reason, it now works so it is conceivable the cards were switched. Fort he life of me, I don't know why I did not use the "swap" feature" just to see.

The only problem I have with this is that before, when I could not get access, i was still able to ping the local IP over our network and I could communicate with E-Smith via network neighbourhood.

Anyways, I appreciate your taking the time.

Peter

[Peter]

Well..I reinstalled the server with two different cards in the event I was mixing up the cards previously because they were identical. And for whatever reason, it now works so it is conceivable the cards were switched. Fort he life of me, I don't know why I did not use the "swap" feature" just to see.

The only problem I have with this is that before, when I could not get access, i was still able to ping the local IP over our network and I could communicate with E-Smith via network neighbourhood.

Anyways, I appreciate your taking the time.

Peter