Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:02:16 +0800
Stephen Liu <satimis@icare.com.hk> wrote:
Dear Stephen,
I told pppoeconf that I didn't want to start the network at boot. To start it anytime: Open an xterm, su to root. Then try this:
pon dsl-provider
You can use the "plog" command to see what effect this had, or "ifconfig ppp0"
Similarly to kill the connection:
poff dsl-provider
That's what works for me. The next thing (actually, a question I want to ask on this list) is how to do this without becoming root.
regards,
Robert
> Hi Robert,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> The Debian box is connected to broadband via a ADSL modem with dynamic
> IP. I ran 'pppoeconfig' to setup the connection. Up to this point it
> seemed without problem, ISP connected and confirmed with 'ifconfig'.
> But connection to Internet was blocked. I searched around to find out
> whether the gateway in the network card has entry which will mislead
> looking to the gateway and could not find it. '/etc/init.d/iptables
> stop' reconfirmed firewall having not started (I have not configured
> firewall yet).
>
> I could not discover the cause of blocking connection to Internet.
>
> B.R.
> Stephne
>
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