[Bug 447971] New: After upgrade to 11.1-Beta5, no way to connect ADSL using PPPoE
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447971 Summary: After upgrade to 11.1-Beta5, no way to connect ADSL using PPPoE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta 5 Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Blocker Priority: P5 - None Component: Network AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer After upgrading from 11.0 using openSUSE-11.1-Beta5-DVD-i586.iso, ifconfig shows lo and eth0 but not dsl0. "ifup dsl0" answers "dsl0 is up" but the interface doesn't appear in ifconfig. My external ADSL modem (Thomson SpeedTouch 530) is connected to my computer via Ethernet and to the phone company (dynamic-addressed) via cable (twisted pair, I think, or maybe coax). It works correctly on 11.0, both before upgrade and after downgrade (which proves the error was not due to a broken phone line). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Regarding blocker: Please read the definitions at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs/Definitions. There are other ways to mark a bug as ship stopper.
I just read it: * Prevents developers or testers from performing their jobs. Impacts the development process. * (Documentation) Key documentation is missing for critical testing and review. That bug sure "prevents" me (as an occasional voluntary tester) from "performing my job" (i.e., from live-testing that version of the openSUSE distribution). If I can't get an Internet connection, I cannot even report a bug, not to mention all the other things I cannot do which force me to downgrade. (Bug 447970 is pretty serious too but at least I found a workaround, albeit kludgy.) I finally found the SHIP_STOPPER flag, but I don't know whom to request it from. Feel free to fill in the flag's requestee. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Do you have 11.0 and 11.1 installed in parallel? [...]
No I don't. I tried to upgrade from 11.0 to 11.1, found bug 447970 (and a kludgy workaround for it) then this bug (and no workaround) so I had to downgrade. At no time did I have more than one Linux system installed on my hard disk. FYI, I'm pasting below the output from ifconfig under 11.0. The ethernet card uses static addressing, the DSL interface dynamic addressing. dsl0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:81.245.59.121 P-t-P:81.245.59.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:93316 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:98257 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:56616462 (53.9 Mb) TX bytes:19440865 (18.5 Mb) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:2A:62:74:64 inet addr:10.0.1.0 Bcast:10.0.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:396885 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:298601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:349532035 (333.3 Mb) TX bytes:49976415 (47.6 Mb) Interrupt:19 Base address:0xe400 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:69493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:69493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3532942 (3.3 Mb) TX bytes:3532942 (3.3 Mb) ..and here is the output of pppoe-discovery, but only on 11.0 since I don't have 11.1 installed. Access-Concentrator: 90084090400334-BAS-PAILLE2 -------------------------------------------------- AC-Ethernet-Address: 00:02:3b:02:9c:97 Oh, one more thing: You may want to check the kludgy bootup workaround in bug 447970. IIUC, it means that in order to run the 11.1 system I had to run init with the /etc/inittab on the HD from the kernel on the DVD. Don't know if it makes a difference. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #13 from Tony Mechelynck
Do you still have /var/log/messages with the entries when you tried to dial in on 11.1 (if so please attach)? Also the /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-* files would be interesting.
I found /var/log/messages and extracted the part concerning my attempts at running the 11.1-Beta5 system. I added two comments starting with a line of dashes (to distinguish them from the "date" starting all "standard" lines) for the upgrade and downgrade. The first 11.0 session after the downgrade is also included. There is no /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-* but I'll attach /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-* as a further attachment.
If you want to verify that your ADSL setup works on 11.1 you could give the the live-cd a try.
OK, I haven't done it yet but I'll do it sometime soon; probably tomorrow (Tuesday) or maybe the day after. (I'm on European time.) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #19 from Tony Mechelynck
Just an unrelated side note on your ifcfg-eth0 file:
--- snip --- IPADDR='10.0.1.0' NETMASK='255.255.255.0' NETWORK='10.0.1.0' --- snap ---
You are using the network address as your machine's IP address. This is not a good idea.
Neither the network address (x.y.z.0 in a class C network) nor the broadcast address (x.y.z.255 in a class C network) should be used as the IP address for a machine.
All I can say is it works, so, as it's out of my line of competence, "since it ain't broke, I don't fix it". That network is between my computer and the DSL device, which has no address switches on it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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All I can say is it works, so, as it's out of my line of competence, "since it ain't broke, I don't fix it". That network is between my computer and the DSL device, which has no address switches on it.
Ah - in that case it indeed doesn't hurt, as an interface that is only being used for PPPoE will never see actual IP traffic, and therefore doesn't even need to have an IP address at all. But on a normal LAN you most probably would have run into problems with an IP address that is identical to the network address, so I thought it would be good to warn you about it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #21 from Tony Mechelynck
(In reply to comment #19 from Tony Mechelynck)
All I can say is it works, so, as it's out of my line of competence, "since it ain't broke, I don't fix it". That network is between my computer and the DSL device, which has no address switches on it.
Ah - in that case it indeed doesn't hurt, as an interface that is only being used for PPPoE will never see actual IP traffic, and therefore doesn't even need to have an IP address at all. But on a normal LAN you most probably would have run into problems with an IP address that is identical to the network address, so I thought it would be good to warn you about it.
Well, thanks for the warning. If ever I use Ethernet for an actual LAN (but I don't think I will, at least not anytime soon), I'll remember this -- I hope. :-) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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