Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)

["Hall Stevenson" <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

> I don't know if this is your problem, but I recently
> helped a friend troubleshoot his mandrake laptop,
> and found that to get ppp to work we had to bring
> down eth0 for some reason.  It seems like you
> shouldn't have to, but you could try that, if you still
> have your eth0 up.

I'll certainly try this and report how/if it works, but that
leads to other issues (these aren't directed at you, David).

What if I was using this box as an internet gateway for other
machines ?? Why disable my ethernet network for file transers,
etc because I'm connecting to the internet ??

Hall