Re: testing PPP connection

[hugo vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Phil wrote:
> 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??

Browsers "don't work" means you get a message as to what?
what does /etc/resolv.conf have in it?

Hugo