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Legacy Forums => Experienced User Forum => Topic started by: Rob Leahy on August 14, 2001, 02:46:28 AM
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I have sucsessfully set an e-smith severr with one exception, internet access.
We are using an external 56k modem and e-smith is networked with several win 95/98 machines. I am just setting up an e-smith server to share and backup files and share internet access.
The system is as follows pent 166 132m mem 10G hard disc seagate dat backup and realtek based lan card.
We use a dial up connection for internet and have 2 external modems to choose from, one acer 56k the other a pragmatic.
All set up fine except a minor glitch with the dat drive, then found on the forum you had to do a manual backup first. So far so good!
We have 8 machines connected to the e-smith server using dynamic dhcp addressing and default gateway set to 192.168.1.1.
I cannot get the esmith to share internet correctly, it is very slow and then stops altogether. Whe ot stops I check the esmith server and it doesnt pass the internet communications test. i can ping from esmith and a client machine and vica versa!
Same result with both modems.
I have tried with esmiths proxy on and off. Any ideas, this is my last hurdle to getting the machine on the network!!!!!!!!
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Hi if I follow you then what is happening is that your win9x clients behind the e-smith box (net connection 56k), are timing out on internet stuff.
If this is what is happening, I have had the same issue with two different boxes, both on 56k links. The clients time out on net connections and pop3 mail access from behind the e-smith box. I have no idea as to why this happens, but it gave me the pips. I ended up swtiching back to an ' LRP ' box for net connections.
Karl
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As the problem is with your dialup connection to your ISP you should troubleshoot it accordingly:
- confirm you have the correct phonenumber, username, & password entered for the dialup connection. (eg try connecting using a win9x computer to make sure this and the physical line is working).
- check that the modem is attempting to dial; look at the modem lights when you boot up and/or logon to the server as root and look at the logs to check what is happening with the dialup.
eg. cat /var/log/messages |less
This should give you enough clues to find out where the problem is. If you get stuck you could post the dial connect error output from your logfile here and someone will respond.
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thanks for you reply!
im new to linux it took me a while to figure out how to get the file into the a user directory and change file permissions so i could get it on a windows box!!!
here the section it goes "pear shaped!"
Aug 13 10:40:30 e-smith console: Aug 13 10:47:33 e-smith console: => -'
Aug 13 10:47:33 e-smith console: Connecting to servertest.e-smith.com:80... connected!
Aug 13 10:48:18 e-smith pppd[1362]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
Aug 13 10:48:18 e-smith pppd[1362]: Modem hangup
Aug 13 10:48:18 e-smith pppd[1362]: Connection terminated.
Aug 13 10:48:18 e-smith pppd[1362]: Connect time 52.9 minutes.
Aug 13 10:48:18 e-smith pppd[1362]: Sent 2170322 bytes, received 6010276 bytes.
Aug 13 10:48:18 e-smith pppd[1362]: Exit.
Aug 13 10:48:18 e-smith diald[734]: Link died on remote end.
Aug 13 10:48:19 e-smith diald[734]: start sl0: SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument
Aug 13 10:48:19 e-smith diald[734]: stop ppp0: RTNETLINK answers: No such process
Aug 13 10:48:19 e-smith kernel: ppp: ppp0 not active
Aug 13 10:48:19 e-smith diald[734]: stop ppp0: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device or address
Aug 13 10:48:19 e-smith diald[734]: Disconnected. Call duration 3174 seconds.
Aug 13 10:48:19 e-smith diald[734]: IP transmitted 4123059 bytes and received 5985703 bytes.
Aug 13 10:48:21 e-smith diald[734]: Calling site 203.134.26.24
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: abort on (BUSY)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: abort on (ERROR)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: abort on (NO CARRIER)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: abort on (NO DIALTONE)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: abort on (Invalid Login)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: abort on (Login incorrect)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: report (CONNECT)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: send (ATZ^M)
Aug 13 10:48:22 e-smith chat[1580]: expect (OK)
Aug 13 10:49:07 e-smith chat[1580]: alarm
Aug 13 10:49:07 e-smith chat[1580]: Failed
Aug 13 10:49:07 e-smith diald[734]: Connect script failed.
Aug 13 10:49:08 e-smith diald[734]: Delaying 10 seconds before clear to dial.
Aug 13 10:49:19 e-smith diald[734]: Calling site 203.134.26.24
Aug 13 10:49:20 e-smith chat[1581]: abort on (BUSY)
It appears the isp is loosing the connection, am i correct?????
on the same pc running windows we have connection times of several days using the same hardware.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Rob Leahy