Re: modem and no ping

[Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:16:27AM +0100, Martin Wegmann wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I apologize for my delayed reply, I posted a question approx. one month ago, 
> but did not find time to proceed, here is my reply:
> 
> (the problem was, that I am working on two networks and when I tried to 
> connect via modem, it shows up as connected but without ping results)
> 
> [copy of the last mail in the archive:]
> >also sprach Martin Wegmann <mailinglist.wegmann@web.de> [2003.10.07.1448 
> +0200]:
> > >baliola@diomedea:/$ /sbin/route -n
> > >Kernel IP routing table
> > >Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
> Iface
> > >145.253.1.121   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 
> ppp0
> > >10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 
> eth0
> > >0.0.0.0         10.0.0.1        0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 
> eth0
> >> baliola@diomedea:/$ ping -c 2 www.yahoo.com
> 
> >your problem is here. the last entry should be the default route to
> >the provider.
> 
> >does your /etc/ppp/peers/provider file contain the 'defaultroute'
> >option?
> 
> yes it shows up with the defaultroute option. 
> 
You need to remove the default gateway 10.0.0.1 on eth0.  The ppp 
defaultroute option won't replace an existing default route.


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