CentOS - Jul 2007 - SOLVED: Re: Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate & config not found

>Message: 23
>Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 22:11:59 -0400
>From: Dan Halbert <halbert at everyzing.com>
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Newbie ADSL configuration, ppp0 can't activate
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>        config  not found
>Message-ID: <469830EF.3080601 at everyzing.com>
>mailing-lists at computer2.com wrote:
> I am frustrated. This is a dual boot box, Win XP (Spanish) and CentOS
>4.4.  The phone company man came today and installed ADSL to the WinXP
<snip>
>Dan wrote: If you have a router, then the ADSL connection you have is
>handled by the router, and is invisible to you, on the LAN side of the
<snip>

Thank you! I was busy and gone most of the day yesterday and didn't
touch the box after about 7 A.M. Early this morning, I came in here and
in two (2) minutes, the box was online in Linux. :-)

The problem was that I'd seen in System Tools > Internet Configuration
Wizard (internet-druid) and I set up an xDSL connection ppp0, which was
not necessary, as you wrote, because the ADSL Router the phone company
man brought does the log in. 

After I deleted the ppp0, I set up eth0 again, to get my IP from the ISP
via DHCP and I put in the 2 IP numbers for their DNS servers, restarted
the Network and I am online!  :-)

I knew this was something extremely simple, but it was Friday the 13th
and to use Johnny's phrase, I had a cubic butt load of frustration. :-)

This will hopefully make it easier for me to get Devil-Linux configured,
for my Firewall/Router box.

Walt Reed: I get the Mailing List Digest, which will come in about 90
minutes, but I looked at the archives this morning and I also saw your
post, which is much appreciated. I am going to try to use Devil-Linux
and if I can't get that working, I will use IPCop, for my
Firewall/Router.

Thanks to both of you for replying to me and to everyone who
participates in this great mailing list!  Lanny

Lanny Marcus wrote:
> After I deleted the ppp0, I set up eth0 again, to get my IP from the ISP
> via DHCP and I put in the 2 IP numbers for their DNS servers, restarted
> the Network and I am online!  :-)
>   
Great! By the way, you should not even need to specify the DNS servers. 
In the DHCP info your router gives your machine, it will probably list 
itself as the DNS server. (DHCP does not return just an IP address but 
also a bunch of other info such as subnet mask and DNS servers.)

The router just forwards DNS requests it gets on to the real DNS servers 
(it found out those when it itself connected to the ISP).. So don't 
specify the DNS servers yourself and then you won't have to do anything 
if the ISP's DNS serves change.

Dan