[Wolves] setup a internet link during bootup on Ubuntu (warty)

baza baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Sun Feb 27 23:42:16 GMT 2005


Adam Sweet wrote:

> --- baza <baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk> wrote: 
>  
>
>>When I was running FC3 it would 'turn on' the
>>Internet via my Belkin 
>>ADSL router/modem during bootup, when it set the
>>clock to the ntp 
>>server. Anyone know how you can provoke warty to do
>>that??
>>
>>I've had a play with sudo pppoe config, but no joy.
>>
>You should be able to work out the router's internal
>IP address by looking at it's built in configuration
>interface.
>
>Apologies if I've got the wrong end of the stick. It
>should just be a case of telling your card to use DHCP
>and to activate the interface at boot.
>
>Ad
>
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>  
>
The problem is the Internet times out after 45 mains and drops the line. 
On boot up my pc gets an SIP address from my router via DHCP with no 
problems, it just won't connect to my ISP. To do that I have to browse 
to my router with Firefox  and activate the net manually.

Baza



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