Re: testing PPP connection
Incoming from Phil:
> I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP, I pon and get BSD compression
> messages and the like, the modem lights all go on and seem to be
> functioning properly, the data transmit lights seem to send the the data
> necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome.
>
> How can I test this situation in terminal mode to see if this PPP
> connection is really working. why are the browsers not accessing the web??
ping -c 2 64.233.167.104
ping -c 2 www.google.com
If the latter says something like "unknown host" or "cannot resolve
www.google.com", you've a dns problem. What's in /etc/resolv.conf?
If neither of them say anything intelligible, then you haven't actually
created a connection.
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