Our service provider charges us £175 per month for 2mb ADSL line with BT-badged router. They provide us with 5 IP addresses and all I have to do then is give one of those IP addresses to the linux machine and tell it to use the ADSL Router as its default gateway, and tell all the other machines here to use the astaro box as their default gateway.
Wicked. I have VPN connections to sites using ADSL, and to some who use frame-relay. Its all the same. Buy a little router to do the connectivity for you. Cisco 1720... Ascend Pipeline for ISDN.. Put the Astaro back-to-back with the router.
there is simple dsl support under /var/chroot-pppoe. You have to edit some files, set masquerading with iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -s YOUR_LOCAL_NET -j MASQUERADE and start the pppoe daemon with start_pppoe.sh, BUT: it's very simple and not supported yet (although it works for me at home).
For now it only works if all configuration is done - any configuration change can kill your dsl connection!
/var/chroot-pppoe/start_pppoe.sh: * adjust ETH (you have to initialize the DSL Interface with ifconfig ETH up)
/var/chroot-pppoe/etc/ppp/options * adjust "user"
/var/chroot-pppoe/etc/ppp/pap-secrets * adjust the file
/var/chroot-pppoe/etc/ppp/chap-secrets * adjust the file
pppoe will automatically reset your default route to the dsl concentrator and hold this connection or retry to establish the connection (even if the connection is interrupted by your ISP).
------------------ Markus
[This message has been edited by Markus Hennig (edited 19 February 2001).]
[This message has been edited by Markus Hennig (edited 19 February 2001).]
I also got the 'Couldn't start pseudo-tty' error message, but i copied the devices from /var/chroot-pptpd/dev/ to /var/chroot-pppoe/dev/ with the tar command and that fixed it.
Then i got a 'ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS): Invalid' error message. This was apparently due to the fact that the pppd in the latest release of Astaro was version 2.3.11. Installing pppd version 2.4.0 fixed that problem. It now works.