[ug-bosug] belenix h/d install boot issue

[Anil Gulecha]

On 6/27/06, Pavan T C <Pavan.Chandrashekar at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> > Venky wrote:
> >
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>>  * Now follow the instructions at (pppoe is already present on BeleniX
> >>>     so you can ignore the "*INSTALLING PPPD 4.0" section.*
> >>>
> >>>    http://www.phildev.net/solaris/spppoe.html
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> Do we need PPPoE?  Shouldn't it be a regular DHCP or static IP
> >> address as far as the computer is concerned?
> >>
> >>
> >    If you are using ADSL modem for Dataone, you'd need pppoe. If you are
> >    using a router, then the router will do all the handshaking and
> simple
> >    DHCP from the computer works.
>
> Not really. The ADSL modem (atleast the one that BSNL provides) has the
> pppoe dialler built into it. You would need nothing more than an IP to
> your machine. Once you configure the modem with the ppp username and
> password, it can take care of doing the ppp part of the transaction and
> will give your system an ethernet frame.


Yes thats right. The way i've configured now elsewhere is just by entering
the following data under the network settings:
a) IP address
b) Subnet mask
c) Default gateway
d) DNS servers

GNOME has a straight forward tool to enter this info. I looked under KDE but
the utility says it does not support the platform (and lists the supported
platforms, asking me to select the one i think closely matches the current
platofrm. I tried with various BSDs and linuxes with no luck). this utility
is under settings>network>network connection (or such)

BSNL provides dynamic IPs , and I dont think it supports DHCP.

Regards
Anil
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