Re: testing PPP connection
Incoming from Phil:
> At 01:21 PM 4/14/04 -0600, you wrote:
> >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.
>
> >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.
>
> Neither ping works. the ip address returns 0 packets received, 100% loss
> the google ping returns nothing needed to "ctrl C" to break out
> resolv.conf contains ip addresses I do not recognize. should I put in the
> primary and secondary DNS numbers for my provider?
Yes, but I'd also insert "-v" in the chatscript line in
/etc/ppp/peers/provider so it reads:
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -f -v /etc/chatscripts/provider"
That will make chat go "verbose" and you'll be able to see from the
log exactly what's happening. Take a look at /etc/chatscripts/provider
too and ensure it makes sense.
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