Re: [LUG] KPPP problems

[neil <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 10 August 2001  9:57 pm, you wrote:

> Neil Williams wrote:
> > I've finally got myself an external modem so that I can use Linux more
> > than Windows. However, I can't access the internet connection once made.
>
> What is the symptom?

Fixed!! (Sorry! didn't mean to waste anyone's time, it's just took a while to 
track it down.)

Linuxconf was looking for the modem on /dev/modem when it should have been 
looking at /dev/tty0 which is where KPPP ws looking. Other apps seemingly 
took their queue from linuxconf/DrakConf and looked at /dev/modem for I/O - 
hence the disappointment.

This is my first message from a Linux box direct to the Internet - I've 
always had to use proxies until now.

>
> What does "ifconfig" show?

eth0   
<snip> 
eth0:0 
<snip>
lo       
<snip>
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:62.64.170.120  P-t-P:62.64.191.200  Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:246 errors:7 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:7
          TX packets:273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10  

> What does "netstat -r" show?
>

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags   MSS Window  irtt Iface
pr-access-f10-l *               255.255.255.255 UH        0 0          0 ppp0
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U         0 0          0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U         0 0          0 lo
default         pr-access-f10-l 0.0.0.0         UG        0 0          0 ppp0 

> Not some PPP set up rewrite /etc/resolv.conf - nasty.
>
> Can you "ping ip.ad.dr.es" ? Try pinging the IP address of the
> ISP DNS servers first!

I didn't have the ISP DNS servers listed until later! Oops! I finally 
admitted defeat and went online via Windows, looked up the setup instructions 
for a Mac (seeing as that was the most detailed on offer) and cribbed.

Thanks for the help Simon - I'd be grateful if you'd cast your eyes over the 
above just to be sure that I've got the thing working properly! Ta.

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