Topic: Dial-up test

[ian hong]

The E-smith Server and Gateway sounds a great idea for us. So we download 3.1 and install on Celeron 533 with 8G and 64M. Everything seems to be ok except the last step; to test the dial-up internet. The E-smith was configurated as Server and Gateway - Dial up. The dial-up was to connected to Bell's @on.aibn.com, telephone 416 681-1168, with correct user name and password. We checked them using Win98 system and the setting was ok. But each time we run the test it reported that there was error connecting to Internet and could not send info to e-smith. We try many different modems, internal and external. The system did dial-up, but no other messages appear. We wonder if we need to key in on.aibn.com 's DNS somewhere in the configuration, the DNS is 198.235.216.134, but we found nowhere in the configuration to enter this number in. Please help.

[Charlie Brady]

ian hong wrote:

> The E-smith Server and Gateway sounds a great idea for us. So
> we download 3.1 and install on Celeron 533 with 8G and 64M.
> Everything seems to be ok except the last step; to test the
> dial-up internet. The E-smith was configurated as Server and
> Gateway - Dial up. The dial-up was to connected to Bell's
> @on.aibn.com, telephone 416 681-1168, with correct user name
> and password.
...
> We try many different modems, internal and
> external. The system did dial-up, but no other messages
> appear.

Have a look in /var/log/messages. There will be evidence there as to what problem PPP had in establishing a net connection.

> We wonder if we need to key in on.aibn.com 's DNS somewhere in
> the configuration, the DNS is 198.235.216.134, but we found
> nowhere in the configuration to enter this number in. Please
> help.

You don't need to key in the DNS data, and that shouldn't be causing your problem. You can set the external DNS server addresses from the E-smith manager web interface under Name and Domain Settings.

Charlie

[ian hong]

Dear Charlie:
Thank you for your direction. It seems that we are getting one step closer ...
Here is what we got in the last lines for /var/log/messages;

e-smith pppd[480]: ppp0 <-> /dev/ttys1
e-smith pppd[480]: Remote message: ^F
e-smith modprobe: Can't locate module ppp-compress-21
                                                                        -26
                                                                        -24
... (repeat the last three lines)
e-smith pppd[480]: local ip address 192.168.1.1
e-smith pppd[480]: remote ip address 209.226.188.241
e-smith diald[320]: New address: local ... , remote ...
e-smith modprobe: can't locate module ppp-compress-1
                                               ....  ppp-compress-1

That is it. Any idea why it can't locate modules. Please advise. Thanks in advance.

[Charlie Brady]

ian hong wrote:

> Here is what we got in the last
> lines for /var/log/messages;
>
> e-smith pppd[480]: ppp0 <-> /dev/ttys1 e-smith pppd[480]:
> Remote message: ^F e-smith modprobe: Can't locate module
> ppp-compress-21 -26 -24 ...

Those messages aren't critical. Search this bulletin board for "ppp-compress" and you will find a solution posted by me.

> (repeat the last three lines)
> e-smith pppd[480]: local ip address 192.168.1.1 e-smith
> pppd[480]: remote ip address 209.226.188.241

There's your connection problem - a local address of 192.168.1.1 is not usable as an Internet address, it's reserved for local networks. Edit /etc/diald.conf and add "noipdefault" to the end of the pppd-options line. If that works, then make the same change in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/diald.conf.

The problem is that your ISP is allowing you r system to claim whatever IP it wants (and 192.168.1.1 is its best guess), rather than forcing your system to use the one that they provide. That's just broken behaviour...

If that doesn't work, and you have an allocated IP address from your ISP, you can add "x.x.x.x:" to the pppd-options line - and that will fix your problem.

Regards

Charlie

[ian hong]

Dear Charlie:

You are wonderful! It works. Your suggestion solved our problem. Before we received your reply we had already download E-smith V4.0 beta and tried it. In V4.0 we could not find the "ppp-options" line in diald.conf. Would you please point us to the location where we can apply the "noipdefault" options in e-smith v4.0 beta. Thank you again for your help.

[Charlie Brady]

ian hong wrote:

> Before we received your reply we had already download
> E-smith V4.0 beta and tried it. In V4.0 we could not find the
> "ppp-options" line in diald.conf. Would you please
> point us to the location where we can apply the
> "noipdefault" options in e-smith v4.0 beta.

The ppp options are in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/ppp/options, and "noipdefault" is already there.

Charlie