Re: serious ppp problems
>> "RaAA" == Robert and Amy Anuszewski <rla@redrose.net> writes:
RaAA> However, when I tried to dial up my ISP, the troubles began.
RaAA> pon dials correctly, and a connection is usually made. ifconfig
RaAA> says that all is well and I have been assigned an IP address.
Is the output of /sbin/route OK?
RaAA> However, I can not ping or access any outside site. The error I
RaAA> receive from ping is that sendto is not allowed.
Looks like ping has the wrong permissions.
ls -l /bin/ping
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 14768 Mar 25 05:55 /bin/ping*
Try pinging the remote gateway (as listed in ifconfig).
telnet 207.25.71.9 80
telnet www.cnn.com 80
will try a connection to the cnn webserver.
$ telnet www.cnn.com 80
Trying 207.25.71.20...
Connected to cnn.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/2.01
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:53:16 GMT
Set-cookie: CNNid=cf194728-7758-923849596-1; expires=Wednesday, 30-Dec-2037 16:00:00 GMT; path=/; domain=.cnn.com
Last-modified: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 16:53:16 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Connection closed by foreign host.
RaAA> p.s. for future reference, if the keyboard goes out on me again,
RaAA> is there a better way to reboot?
You could configure your user to be able to shutdown the computer
(with the sudo or super package), and add an option to the
windowmanager menus, so if your mouse works, you can do a shutdown.
Ciao,
Martin
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