On Wednesday 30 March 2005 01:18, Francis Bouchard wrote:
> How do I get PPP to work correctly on Debian. I can start PPP (ifconfig
> shows my PPP link is up) but when I do, Mozilla does not find hosts neither
> does ping. Can someone help me with that ?
If the box as a ethernet card installed you will need to set up the system
for a static ip address for the ethernet card. The static setup needs no
gateway ip and no dns ip addresses. If you miss this setup on the install
just install apt-get install etherconf and configure. If you need to run
etherconf again use the command as su dpkg-reconfigure etherconf
Here is a link to help setup Debian for dialup.
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/peripherals/modem.html
All so, to tweek up the dialup speed have a look at setting the mtu size to
576 edit the file /etc/ppp/options and replace #mtu <n> with mtu 576
To check the present mtu size when your dialup is connect run ifconfig as
su and look at the mtu size for ppp0 it will be 1500. Once you editted the
file /etc/ppp/options and have rebooted look again at the MTU size for ppp0
and now you should see mtu 576
all the best peter
all the best peter
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