Re: newbie setup of ppp Thanks connected (network unreachable)

[Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>]

Ok, I'm sure we can work through this...
Your /etc/nsswitch.conf file probably needs to have something like this
(this is from the hamm distribution but I believe that bo is similar):
# /etc/nsswitch.conf
#
# Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality.
# Information about this file is available in the `libc6-doc' package.

passwd:         db files
group:          db files
shadow:         db files

hosts:          files dns
networks:       files

protocols:      db files
services:       db files
ethers:         db files
rpc:            db files

netgroup:       db files


/etc/host.conf:
order hosts,bind
multi on


Your ifconfig should look something like this:
bash-2.01$ /sbin/ifconfig
lo   Link encap:Local Loopback 
     inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
     UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
     RX packets:196 error:0 dropped:0 over:0 frame:0
     TX packets:196 error:0 dropped:0 over:0 carrier:0 coll:0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:06:CA:E5  
     inet addr:199.79.129.22  Bcast:199.79.129.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
     UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
     RX packets:0 error:0 dropped:0 over:0 frame:0
     TX packets:0 error:0 dropped:0 over:0 carrier:0 coll:0
     Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300 

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
     inet addr:12.69.65.163  P-t-P:12.69.65.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
     UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
     RX packets:15819 error:1 dropped:1 over:0 frame:0
     TX packets:12228 error:0 dropped:0 over:0 carrier:0 coll:0

Of course, if you don't have an ethernet card the middle section will
not exist.  Also, for most situations, the "inet addr:" numbers will be
different for each online session.


Your routing table should look something like this (and the default is
the important one here--the last entry):

bash-2.01$ /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination   Gateway     Genmask         Flags Metric Ref  Use Iface
12.69.65.1    0.0.0.0     255.255.255.255 UH    0      0      0 ppp0
199.79.129.0  0.0.0.0     255.255.255.0   U     0      0      0 eth0
127.0.0.0     0.0.0.0     255.0.0.0       U     0      0      6 lo
0.0.0.0       12.69.65.1  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0     57 ppp0

Naturally, you are not likely to be connected to the site "12.69.65.1"
-- 
best,
-bill
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