Re: Fw: PPP is HOAXED!

[Johnny Thompson <johnny@sasebo.com>]

Thanks a million!  I did notice that when I installed debian and overlooked
it.

Ove Kaaven wrote:

> On Sun, 2 May 1999, Johnny Thompson wrote:
>
> > SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument <- I think this may be my problem
>
> > Initializing IP Masquerading...done.
>   ^^ I think this may be your problem...
> the ipmasq package installs firewall rules
>
> > PING 202.239.113.26 (202.239.113.26): 56 data bytes
> > ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
> > ping: wrote 202.239.113.26 64 chars, ret=-1
>
> the firewall does not permit you to ping through the ppp interface
>
> Purge and reinstall the ipmasq package, then answer "yes" to whether it
> should recompute firewall rules when PPP link is up (or touch
> /etc/ipmasq/ppp, which does the same, I think)