Could be assigning itself the wrong IP. I'd check ifconfig ppp0, make
sure its assigning itself the correct IP. One of our client's was having
a similar problem using pppd to connect via ISDN to one of our Livingston
PM3's here.
--
O imitators, you slavish horde!
-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well I did it! Somehow I messed up my dialer where now I can't connect to my
> ISP.
>
> I am using pppd (I think thats the program), and while I haven't changed
> anything in my files I dial my ISP and I get [-error-] 137.186.21.2 is not
> responding."
>
> I have re-examined my files in /usr/sbin/ppp-on and I can't see where
> anything has changed. I can manually run the dialer by entered ppp-on and it
> connects. That would tell me that it is accepting my user name and password.
> I say this because I can leave the connection up for as long as I want. So
> it must be happy with what I entered.
>
> Then I enter fetchpop or fetchmail or popclient - and this is where I get
> the "[-error-]" message back. And yet I have changed nothing in any of these
> files...
>
> I have tried eveyrthing and am lost. It must be something like a 'name
> server error', but why is this happening? All I can think is that something
> became corrupted and now I am sick..
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated..
>
>
>
> Ted Gervais 08/26/98 02:29pm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Coldbrook, NS Canada
> 902-679-2253
>
