after installing a fresh distro, the first thing a person would want is to get the box connected to internet, so that essential packages can be installed.
i am having dsl broadband connection and my login credentials are not stored in router. i prefer the store the credentials in the system itself. getting the internet to work here was tricky as pppoeconf is not present in the system.
pppoe-setup was used to configure the internet connection
pppoe-start used to start the connection
pppoe-stop used to stop the connection
connection was established successfully, output of ifconfig showed that ppp0 interface is up and running. however, dns resolution was not working.
i tried entering exact dns server ip address in pppoe setup, but it didnt work. a posting on linuxforums about slackware pppoe showed that eth0 (lan interface) should be down before starting pppoe connection.
running this as root solved my problem.
ifconfig eth0 down
pppoe-start
this problem doesnt come in ubuntu, probably because pppoeconf is smart enough to handle it.
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