This is kind of a shot in the dark, but maybe somebody out there will
have a clue. One of the local dial-up ISP's I use recently mergered with a
larger organization, and part of the process involved making the old DNS
servers and other local hardware redundant, as well as "upgrading" their lines
(and possibly other hardware). Before these changes, I had no problems using
KPPP to establish a connection. Just plug in the DNS and phone numbers and off
we go. But since the changes were made, I get nothing. To be precise, I dial
up, it logs in, everything seems fine, but Netscape goes nowhere. The
connection seems to be there, but addresses never resolve and I'm left
looking at a blank browser window forever. Same thing applies with any other
net utility I try. Now the weird thing is that using exactly the same
configuration from Dial-Up Networking on my win98 partition works just fine.
Same DNS, same everything, except it actually works.
Now, of course, the ISP doesn't support linux and haven't been
particularly forecoming about PPP changes they made. So does anybody have a
guess I could try? The authorization protocol isn't the problem, so I'm
guessing there might be some PPP parameters that dial-up networking can figure
out on it's own, but need to be manually entered for KPPP.
Help?
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David Hart
Vincity Design
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