On Fri, Jul 31, 2015, at 02:30 AM, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
Hi Ben,
Is your modem set to Bridge or PPPoE mode?
PPPoE is easier, and I assume it is here!
If PPPoE, you should not have to do anything, assuming that your modem is stock Telstra configuration and has dhcp-server on.
Set your PC to dhcp and let it connect and get an ip from the modem. That all you need to do.
Of course you want be able to connect to it if its ip 10.0.0.138 and you seem to have your IP 192.168.0.3 (different subnet).
Alternatively set your IP to 10.0.0.3 and you should be able to connect to it. But dhcp is easier and it should get routing and dns information etc automatically.
Cheers Daniel.
Thanks Daniel. Just after I sent the email I went back to the ethernet config and changed the BOOTPROTO to dhcp and rebooted. I got an address on the same network as the modem and got in through the browser! Failing to do that config before was an oversight. The modem is in router mode by default and I thought I'd go with that for starters before I acquainted myself a bit more with running it from my computer in bridge mode. Unfortunately, after getting into the modem through the browser, it still wouldn't connect to the internet. So, now that I sensed the problem was connection rather than me, I rang Telstra and suggested that the connection to the exchange may be a problem. My password and username were fine. I had to "infer" that the computer was Windows, but all the technician took me through was the browser's view of the modem - operating system was irrelevant. He was in the Phillipines and tried to re-set the server half a dozen times, and I reset the modem each time, but it still would not connect, so the latest is that he will have a technician look at the exchange here in Olinda. That's where it sits at the moment. ben
On 31/07/15 19:13, bnis@fastmail.fm wrote:
I am unable to get my Telstra adsl working. I'm trying to upgrade from dial-up and I thought I did a lot of research, but I have failed to get anywhere with the adsl and I need help.
The adsl unit is a Technicolor modem/router TG799vac.
I hooked it up and the lights flashed but the Status and Internet lights remained red.
I tried to get into the unit with firefox and midori but both failed to reach the modem's address http://10.0.0.138 which is the address on the unit. I am running network.service and it's up. The config for my ethernet connection which goes into the ethernet socket on the modem is: [ben@til network-scripts]$ cat ifcfg-enp63s0 TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=none DEFROUTE=yes IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=no IPV6INIT=no NAME=enp63s0 UUID=6479f67e-53e7-4953-a796-cf3d3f770b2f ONBOOT=yes HWADDR=00:1E:0B:2C:8E:22 PEERDNS=yes PEERROUTES=yes IPADDR=192.168.0.3 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 USERCTL=yes NM_CONTROLLED=no PREFIX=24
This config was part of my home network and I didn't change it before I plugged everything in and powered up.
I tried to make a route to the modem with: #route add default gw 10.0.0.138 but I get "network is unreachable" but 'systemctl -a |grep network' shows network service loaded and active.
So, I'm stuck. In my research before hand I came across many posts saying: "just plug it in, use the browser to configure it and off you go." I did get comfort from that, but my experience is of failure. What can I do to get this modem working?
My distro is fedora 22 and I don't run a desktop, just a window manager and am used to doing most things on the command line. -- Thanks. ben
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