Hi, I use red hat 9.0 and ADSL to connect into internet, this is my problem:

when I start connection, and use adsl-start command , it shows me following messages:

Note: You have enable demand-connection:adsl-status maybe inaccurate.
adsl-status:Link is up and running on interface ppp0.
inet addr:10.10.100.172 p-t-p:24.24.24.24
mask 255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTI CAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:33 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frume:0
TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueue len:3
RX bytes:2155(2.1kb) TX bytes:54(54.0b)

Hope someone would be so kind to help me solve it! Thanks much in advance!

Are those IP addresses you gave real? If so, I don't think that you have actually set the connection up properly.

It looks like you are using the Roaring Penguin pppoe package. This is really simple to configure - you are prompted for all the information required. To do (or check) the configuration, you need to run: adsl-setup

thank you for your answering
I give the real IP address,because of ADSL,I didn't set IP address
I'm sorry I can't understand clearly about the configuration you've said.can you say it spicific?
I don't know which version pppoe package I use, but I'm sure I've have done : adsl-setup!

thanks again for any help you give!

To explain:

To configure rp-pppoe (which I think you have), at the command prompt, type: adsl-setup

The configuration programme will ask you a set of questions about your user name, password, the Ethernet interface you are using (probably eth1 or eth0) and whether you want to connect on demand.

* If you want to connect on demand (rather than having the connection running all the time), you will be asked for a time-out value
* You may be asked for the addresses of DNS servers - you should have been given these by your ISP.

Once you have answered your questions and have saved the configuration, run adsl-start.

You may see a similar message to the one you had before, but with legitimate IP addresses! If you do not see the message, you can make it display by doing: adsl-status

Once you have done this, try pinging an address that you know should work, such as your ISP's DNS server. If the ping comes back OK, you are up and running!

You can find more information about rp-pppoe on this page: <http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/rp-pppoe/>

Thanks so much for your advice. I'll try it again.

'm sad to say that it dosen't work.
But I find a very strange fact: that every time I re-install the rp-pppoe, although the NOTE:
is the same, but I can connect to internet!!!! Look, I'm using Linux pppoe communication with you!! I met this before. and I still don't know what to do!

Is there anyone could help me with this problem?thanks in advance!

Is this actually causing you a problem? If you've got a connection, I'd say not.

The message is actually a warning, rather than an error:
"Note: You have enable demand-connection:adsl-status maybe inaccurate."

The rest of the message is just the output of adsl-status.

Now, the 10.10.x.y IP address is, as far as I know, not an address on the public Internet which is why I queried it in the beginning. (I have just checked it and it is an IANA reserved address.) So, either you are getting the wrong information through adsl-status OR your ISP is doing something really weird and using reserved addresses on their clients and is performing some sort of masquerading upstream. Anything is possible in an infinite universe ;-)

May I suggest that you try:

ifconfig ppp0

This may give you exactly the same message (without the "Note: You have..." line), but may give something different. If it is the same, you may want to ask if they are using reserved addresses and possibly why...

thanks first.

I do the ifconfig eth0, this is the output
Because I'm newbie for Linux , all I do is to follow the instruction, I haven't set the DNS because the instruction says ADSL is dynamic IP, so fill in "server" just enough. I don't know if my ISP used reserved addresses, and I still don't know how to sovle this problem

PS: now I use Linux surf, It's unbelieveable ha? I wonder how long it can last?

anyway,thanks

That's your eth0 port. Even if the ADSL modem is on that port, ifconfig ppp0 will give you information about the addresses that you've been allocated. (If you run ifconfig without arguments, you will see the status of all your interfaces.)

So, what is your exact problem? You can connect to the Internet, but what can't you do?

perhaps your ISP is assiging a private address. As you are able to use the internet, you may bebehind some proxy/NAT server.

What is the output of netstat -nr?

Do a traceroute to, say, yahoo.com and check what is the first registered / public address you encounter. That may be your proxy/NAT server/router.

My problem is, it's very unstable!! Now, I can't use linux surf, and I don't know why? I do nothing but reinstall pppoe yesterday,then I can use it, but a day later, I can't!!

I'm amazing about it! Now I use XP, but I still wanna use linux! Can you help me again to the problem? What arguments I can give you to make it more clear? Thank you!

I'd like to try! But would you make it more clear? Forgive me, I'm really a newbie for linux. Thanks anyway!

Can you post the contents of your pppoe configuration file: /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf? [Please change your user name before posting for your security!]

I'll compare your configuration to mine and see if I can see anything.

Hi, kbcnetau!
Thank you so much for your kind and patient help.
Yesterday, I happen to meet someone ask for the same question, and he solve the problem by changing rp-pppoe version!!! Whether his wrong or right I have no idea, but I try it immediatly. Now I use rp-pppoe-3.5 version, everything is OK

Yet, I don't know if it could really solve this problem, I'll check it. If it works, I think it maybe a rp-pppoe's bug, and I hope this message could be help for somebody who need.

Again, thanks kbcnetau,you're my first friend in this forum

Most welcome - hope it all works well for you :-)