Re: ppp on demand trouble

[Sigmund Svertingsson <siggy@trueblood.net>]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far.

Here is a bit more detail:

Machine "Return" (it lives in my air conditioning return ducting at the 
end of the hallway) is my gateway to the outside world (via my dial-up 
ISP).  My ISP gives me a dynamic IP address.

I'm pretty sure my statically configured LAN is fine, as I have to ssh 
into the headless Return machine to do anything.

I uncommented "demand" and "persist" in /etc/ppp/peers/provider and told 
the machine to "pppd call provider."

The results of "ifconfig ppp0" and "ifconfig eth0" are:

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
         inet addr:10.64.64.64  P-t-P:10.112.112.112  Mask:255.255.255.255
         UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:E3:0F:83:A6
         inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:56791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:51685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
         RX bytes:15205639 (14.5 MiB)  TX bytes:38855816 (37.0 MiB)
         Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1f00

But it doesn't dial when it (as I understand it) it should.  I have 
tried firing up Mozilla on the masq'ed machine I'm typeng on now, as 
well as trying Lynx on the Return machine and pointing it at Google.  
Nothing provoked any kind of reaction from my spiffy USRobotics external 
modem.

Then, I commented out "demand" and "persist," killed pppd, and restarted 
it again.   Beep, beep goes the modem, up comes the connection, and here 
is the ifconfig ppp0 output:

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
         inet addr:66.81.203.95  P-t-P:66.81.235.139  Mask:255.255.255.255
         UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1524  Metric:1
         RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
         RX bytes:66 (66.0 b)  TX bytes:87 (87.0 b)

What do I do now?

Siggy