Re: ppp problem
>On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:43:27PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I
>installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may have >
>missed something in setting up the ppp connection.
>>
>> I can dial out, connect to, and log on to my ISP. But when I try to ping a
>> site, I get the error message: unknown host. When I use Mozilla, it says:
>> Unable to locate the server.
>>
>> Ifconfig says that ppp is running.
>> Wvdial says ppp negotiation detected; starting pppd.
>>
>> Everything seem to be working except I can't communicate with the ISP.
>>
>> Is there something I can edit to fix this?
>>
>> Is more information needed?
>---end quoted text---
>This is similar to a problem I had (still have?).
>Upon dialling up to my isp, the "default route" was
>eth0 rather than ppp0. This meant ping, and any nameserver
>request was directed along eth0 rather than to the
>appropriate location ppp0, and thus those utilities
>never returned with any kind of successful result.
>(I'm running a local ethernet in addition to dialing
>up to my isp).
>If you think this might be your problem, a way to check
>is to
> cat /proc/net/route
Here it is:
Dest Gateway Flags RefCnt Use Metric Mask MTU Window IRTT
42006E89 00000000 0005 0 0 0 FFFFFFFF 0 0
ppp0 00000000 42006E89 0003 0 0 0 00000000 0
0 ppp0
Does this help?
Thanks,
Sandy
>(as running "route" to see the list of routes is futile, or at least very
>time-consuming).
>If the last entry is not ppp0, try the following commands
>route del default eth0 (or whatever the device is on that last line)
>route add default ppp0
>HTH
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