Re: PPP to ISP
sounds like a routing problem, i remember this one well from my 8 hours
strugglign to get online with slackware a few years back.
try adding the default gateway
route add default gw <ip of the gateway>
where the ip of the gateway is that other ip you can ping.
nate
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On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 Stephen.Murphy@aspex.co.uk wrote:
> Please bear with me guys - I am having a bit of trouble
> all in all, getting my Debian system to work nicely ( I
> love it though).
>
> I have set up a PPP connection to my ISP (Freeserve in UK).
>
> Connection gets established OK - ifconfig shows it's up and
> routing tables have sensible entries.
> However I am only able to successfully ping the IP address
> at the other end of the PPP connection.
> If I ping anything else - despite the fact that my modem
> lights seem to indicate a packet is returned - ping insists
> that no packets have been received.
> Could this be another inadvertant firewall problem?
> I spent all weekend scratching my head - looking at every book
> under the sun.
>
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