Re: My Debian box can't connect Internet
Hi Robert,
Thanks for your advice.
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Before starting test as per your advice, following discoveries were
found
1) # pppoe
pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADO packets
(pppoe could not start. It can be started at time of configuring
network card after installation of Debian 3.0)
2) /etc/resolv.conf could not be edited even as ROOT (the file can be
opened and its content can be edited. But saving is impossible)
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search domain.com\000
nameserver 192.168.2.1
# ls -l /etc/resolv.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
> 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"
Debian box already automatically connects to ISP after booting
(remark: dynamic IP)
# ifconfig ppp0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:202.123.68.108 P-t-P:202.123.71.254
Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
RX bytes:10109 (9.8 KiB) TX bytes:1932 (1.8 KiB)
> Similarly to kill the connection:
>
> poff dsl-provider
# poff 202.123.68.108
/usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for provider
'202.123.68.108'. None stopped.
B.R.
Stephen
>
> > 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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