Hi Alexey, Thanks for your advice.
(Remark: - I made another clean installation of Debian 3.0 on another PC with net-installer (sarge). It went through smoothly. The same problem occurred, unable to connect to Internet, ISP connected - The Debian box is connected to ISP via ADSL Modem - Dynamic IP is provided - I made all tests as ROOT) - snip - > Do a "cd /etc/ppp/peers" to change current working directory to > /etc/ppp/peers. (cd - stands for change directory. "pwd" command stands > for print working directory). Do a "ls -l" to see all files in current > directory and their permissions, owner and group. You'll get something > like this: > [lex.lexa]$ cd /etc/ppp/peers/ > [lex.lexa]$ ls -l > total 11 > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 661 ÐÐÑ 21 2002 bnm > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 1782 ÐÐÑ 21 2002 dsl-provider > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 655 ÐÐÑ 28 2002 ial > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 634 ÐÐÐ 13 2003 maib > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 699 ÐÐÑ 21 2002 min > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 610 ÐÐÑ 21 2002 ml > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 646 ÐÐÑ 21 2002 mtc > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 579 ÐÐÑ 21 2002 provider > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 716 ÐÐÐ 11 2003 snt > -rw-r-- 1 root dip 699 ÐÐÑ 28 10:52 uni # ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/ -rw-r-- 1 root root .... dsl-provider -rw-r-- 1 root dip ..... provider There were only 2 files there. The first line above is 'root root' not 'root dip' Besides the file /etc/resolv.conf appeared very strange. I was allowed to make a change to this file after issuing following command # chattr = /etc/resolv.conf But after starting 'pon dsl-provider' the said file changed back to its original content as follows; search domain.com nameserver 192.168.2.1 (default content) - snip - > Add a "usepeerdns" option to your dsl-provider file. So pppd will > change /etc/resolv.conf to dns servers provided by your provider during > ppp negotiation. Added "usepeerdns" to /etc/ppp/peer/provider But it could not solve the problem Still can't connect to Internet. I think the outgoing packages is searching the gateway 192.168.0.1. I made connection to Internet once (ONLY ONCE) as follows; ========================================================= - Bootup the Debian box - pon dsl-provider - ping -c 3 www.yahoo.com packets received - "usepeerdns" already in /etc/ppp/peer/provider - cat /etc/resolv.conf showing search domain.com ISP address ISP address (3 entries) - deleted "usepeerdns" in /etc/ppp/peer/provider - rebooted Debian box - pon dsl-provider ISP connected, but blocked from Internet - I repeated tests several times. Occasionally cat /etc/resolv.conf showing search domain.com ISP address ISP address (3 entries) but still could not connected to Internet, ISP connected. Other times cat /etc/resolv.conf showing search domain.com nameserver 192.168.2.1 (default content) It seemed very strange to me. I have been trying to solve this problem several days without a solution. B.R. Stephen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
