Please help with ADSL

[Mark Devin <mdevin@ozemail.com.au>]

I am really frustrated now.  Please help me.

I have downloaded the rp-pppoe tarball and untarred and run it.

When I type adsl-start it seems to bring up the connection.  ifconfig
shows it to be there.
# ifconfig
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:61.9.158.110  P-t-P:172.31.16.24
Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3

But I can't ping anything.

When I try and ping the remote IP address I get:
# ping 172.31.16.24
PING 172.31.16.24 (172.31.16.24): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote 172.31.16.24 64 chars, ret=-1
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted
ping: wrote 172.31.16.24 64 chars, ret=-1
--- 172.31.16.24 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

I can't ping the DNS server either.

my log file shows the following (cat /var/log/syslog):
Apr  8 12:59:41 debian pppd[1218]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0
Apr  8 12:59:41 debian pppd[1218]: Using interface ppp0
Apr  8 12:59:41 debian pppd[1218]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/6
Apr  8 12:59:42 debian pppoe[1219]: PADS: Service-Name: ''
Apr  8 12:59:42 debian pppoe[1219]: PPP session is 3168
Apr  8 12:59:43 debian pppd[1218]: Cannot determine ethernet address for
proxy ARP
Apr  8 12:59:43 debian pppd[1218]: local  IP address 61.9.158.102
Apr  8 12:59:43 debian pppd[1218]: remote IP address 172.31.16.24

Please help me before I lose all my hair.

Regards.

Mark.