Hey people Will someone please help me out with this?
I access the Internet via pppoe. I am using Fedora Core 3 and Win XP dual boot machine. Prior to FC3 (1 year), I had been using FC1 (1 year), Red Hat 8 (1 year). The connection is working fine with WinXP's (using default pppoe option in connect setup). The problem is with the connection and my Linux install - that the connection works fine for say, a minute ot so. Then though ppp0 shows to be up in ifconfig, ping <domain> (say, ping google.com) gives me "Host not Found" messege when I ping. Needless to say that my browser gives me the same error when I try to access a website. The funny thing is that previously resolved DNS (such as an on-going download) continues, but new queries do not resolve after a minute or so of the network start. When I restart the network using /etc/init.d/network restart, the same story repeats - DNS resolving fine for some time and then it doesn't work. I even tried using latest FC3 update of rp-pppoe, but things look the same.
The most frustating thing is that things worked perfectly with the same connection since I got it in September till a week ago. Then my provider changed something that made the pppoe connection not connect at all. The guy kept telling me that my system had a 'virus' or 'bad sectors' and to re-install some 'ras-pppoe' for Windows. After I told the guy that I cannot connect despite threatened the provider that I'll throw out his connection along with the switch (which connect 1 more connection beyond mine), he sends his incompetant Windows guys who tell me all sorts of crap including boo-boo stories of viruses and what not. Eventually, I got them 4 lan cards and one more machine to test things on and had them admit that the only problem was with their server setup. Then a day later the incompetant guy at the server made some changes and now the connection works with Windows. But not with Linux. Since I mostly like to use Linux for everything, I am pretty depressed and frustrated. If anyone can help me with this issue, I'd be grateful.