On 18 Sep, this message from Bruce McIntyre echoed through cyberspace: > Pinging anything aside from localhost results in 100% packet loss.
Have you looked at: - 'ifconfig', to see whether you got an IP address on your ppp0 interface? - 'netstat -rn', to check whether you've got a default route set up through the ppp0 interface? > pinging say, www.google.com and running netstat gave: > > Active Internet connections (w/o servers) > Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State > > The report was incomplete, and netstat needed to be killed. That's netstat blocking on nameserver lookups. Use netstat -n (numeric) to avoid that. > Pinging a server > listed in resolv.conf (a numeric address) resulted in netstat giving a > full report (it goes on to report about unix domain sockets). Keep in mind that DNS lookups may take time. > I was stupid and did not think to pipe that output to a file. Switching to > single user mode and back ( a desperate measure ) did not help, but cycling > power fixed everything. Does anyone know what might be going on here? Without output of above commands, no.... Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
