On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 11:10:03AM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote: | > I don't know if this is your problem, but I recently | > helped a friend troubleshoot his mandrake laptop, | > and found that to get ppp to work we had to bring | > down eth0 for some reason. It seems like you | > shouldn't have to, but you could try that, if you still | > have your eth0 up. | | I'll certainly try this and report how/if it works, but that | leads to other issues (these aren't directed at you, David). | | What if I was using this box as an internet gateway for other | machines ?? Why disable my ethernet network for file transers, | etc because I'm connecting to the internet ??
Bringing down eth0 probably removed the default route which solved the problem above (also what others suggested). I can verify, though, that using a machine as an ethernet LAN => PPP WAN gateway works quite well. I had a 486 machine set up to do this until I got DSL. HTH, -D
