Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Draytek Vigor 100 ADSL Modem

[Dick M. <di...@li...>]

ee...@fr... wrote:

Thanks for you comments.

>>> Anybody using this modem with DL?  I just want to know DL plays with it
> without difficulty.

> never know draytek even exists ... anyway a little googleling gives me that :
> 
> http://www.draytek.co.uk/support/kb_vigor100_setup.html

Yes, well - that doesn't tell you much about the real thing.  It seems it's a 
work in progress ;-)  My unit came without any documentation of any sort and 
there's no user guide on the Draygor site either.

It's not a problem though because it's all pretty obvious and it works well.

> basically, as I remember there are three things to setup in the
> /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf : the ethernet device the modem is plugged in, your 
> connection username and if you want permanent or on-demand connection ... vi it,
> it's fully commented!

If you're running a DNS server then you want to stop pppoe overwriting 
resolve.conf.  DNSTYPE=NOCHANGE

 > Or if you need to access to your modem web interface, set eth0 to start with
 > ip 192.168.1.2 for exemple, and ensure that other networks connected to your
 > DL box don't use this network!

Again you need to stop dhcp setting a default route (if you use the dhcp in the 
modem).  This can be done in /etc/sysconfig/network/dhcp

The final gotcha is that to access the modem web interface from the internal net 
you need to give it a default route.  You have to resort to telnet to set that. 
  You also need to use telnet to set a password for it.  Again it's not too 
difficult as it gives help prompts with a trailing ? on the command line.  You 
can also get modem status using telnet which gives an alternative to the web 
interface.

Altogether not bad - pretty easy to configure in DL and works just fine.

Final job is to get pppoe to start at boot time.

Dick