Re: PPP question (my DSL is down !!)
On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
| > 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 ??
Bringing down eth0 probably removed the default route which solved the
problem above (also what others suggested). I can verify, though,
that using a machine as an ethernet LAN => PPP WAN gateway works quite
well. I had a 486 machine set up to do this until I got DSL.
HTH,
-D
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