Re: [Newbie] ppp: Connection established, but can't ping. How can I get out into Internet?
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:50, Scotty Fitzgerald wrote:
> I had a similar problem, When I set up the machine I
> had a Ethernet card that was autodetected, and the
> the autodetection set up the ethernet card as the default
> gateway to the internet. While your ethernet is the default
> gateway the dialup won't establish itself as a gateway. Try to
> remove the gateway status of your ethernet card, and things should work.
>
> It took me a few googles on Linux networking and I found this, but if
> you can't find a good webpage post a reply, and I will actually start up my
> old windows partition and see if I can find the webpage that clued me in.
>
Please don't top post: http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/toppost.htm
A google "i'm feeling lucky" search got me the following page. perhaps
it was the one you were refering to?
http://www.ale.org/archive/ale/ale-1996-02/msg00026.html
You could use ip-up & ip-down scripts to setup/tear down routes for your
ppp connection. That would certainly beat doing it manually every time.
-davidc
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