Re: newbie: more startup problems
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 18:34, Paul Schwartz wrote:
> I have been trying to enable web access to update apt, etc.
>
> I have tried two ways: wvdial and pon
>
> Both seem to connect to my ISP and establish ppp, but
> none of the programs I run are able to communicate with the outside.
>
> I have tried to ping by name [my ISP's domain] and by numerical address
> [the DNServers]
> No responses. The only response is for localhost.
Have you got a default route set up (so that the system knows what to do
with packets meant for the net)? Do this:
$ netstat -nr
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
217.41.134.74 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 217.41.134.74 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0
You ought to see a line beginning 0.0.0.0, which is the default route.
If you don't, you can set a default route up by hand like this:
# route add default gw 217.41.134.74
substituting the appropriate address for 217.41.134.74. This is the
address of your ppp0 interface.
If that is your problem, someone else should be able to tell you how to
automate setting it up. Since my ISP assigns static IP addresses and
yours probably assigns dynamic ones, I can't help there.
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