Re: pppdifficulties

[Mike Missett <mmissett@cine-med.com>]

Rogerio and MIchel,
Thanks for your answers.  There was a post on user by someone
who found things routed to eth0 when they needed to be going to
ttyS0, which is what got me thinking about default route.  I will try
Rogerio's answer and if still lost try the user list.  Also, in reference
to Rogerio's second part, I assume lynx is using names, at least that's
what it says it's doing, and I figured that was at least part of it's
problem.  Thanks again.
Mike

Rogério Brito wrote:

>         Use the "route -n" command to see if you have a route with
>         destination of 0.0.0.0 and with the gateway/router set to your
>         PPP peer.
>
>         If yes, then you're already done with the default route. If
>         not, then you have to tell pppd to add a default route
>         (possibly, substitute one that you already have) with a route
>         like described above.
>
> > If you could provide some advice on that, I would most appreciate
> > it.  Also, one further bit of info: lynx gives me a message "lynx:
> > Can't access startfile http://www.snet.net"; (my IP).  Thanks again.
>
>         Are you *really* using your IP or using names? Names won't
>         probably work before you can get pinging hosts in the
>         Internet.
>
>         []s, Roger...
>
> P.S.: You should ask this question to debian-user@lists.debian.org,
> where this will reach a much wider audience and help you faster.
> Rogerio