Internet Configuration Wizard
Salvatore Enrico Indiogine
hindiogine at sbcglobal.net
Sun Nov 23 17:19:30 UTC 2003
Hi David!
On RHL9 I could not make DSL to work with the GUI. I used
/sbin/adls-setup and it worked well. Just do not implement a firewall
during the DSL setup.
Ciao,
Enrico
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 09:06, David wrote:
> I have a DSL connection to the internet with SBC. Using the Internet
> Configuration Wizard one has to enter a provider name such as "SBC"
> resulting in a file "/etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-SBC" being
> created to hold its configuration data.
>
> However during bootup, I received a message for file "ifcfg-ppp0" not
> found and the connection is not made.
>
> On a lark, I went back to the wizard, this time using provider name
> "ppp0", resulting in a file
> "/etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0" for the config data.
>
> Now during bootup, the ifcfg-ppp0 is found and the connection is made as
> desired.
>
> My question is, shouldn't the bootup have been properly trying to find
> "ifcfg-SBC" when starting up ppp0 with the original configuration setup?
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