OK Jill. This makes sense now. The PPP session is not providing you with
information about your default gateway. You need to add it to your routing
table.
Since you (probably) get a different IP address each time you connect, this
will be a bit difficult to do. Just as a test -- it is too cumbersome to do
every time -- you should do the following.
1. After you connect, run "ifconfig -a" and look at the entry for ppp0. Note
the p-t-p address. In your example below, it appears on this line:
ppp0 link encaop:point-to-point protocol
> inet addr:212.49.253.217 p-t-p:212.49.224.160
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
2. Manually add this address as your default route. YOu do this with the
"route" command:
route add default gw 212.49.224.160 metric 1
3. Now check your routin table with "route -n", and you should find a route
to 0.0.0.0 at the end of the table.
4. Now try pinging me and see if you get responses (by name and by address,
I hope).
If this all works, you still have to figure out how to get the route added
automatically. I don't know kppp so don't know if it is a problem at your
end or a nons-standard setup by the ISP.
At 04:37 AM 5/27/00 +0100, Jill wrote:
>Hi Lawson and all, here are the commands I was aked to run, this time I did
>them whilst connected to the Internet
>
>
>"ps ax | grep sysl" to verify that syslogd is
>Whilst connected to the internet I ran this
>237 ? s 0:04 syslogd -m o
>2735 ? d 0:13 find / (-name syslog)
>2737 ? ttyp2 0:00 grep sysl
>
>ifconfig -a
>Whilst connected to the internet produces
>lo link encap:Local loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask 255.0.0.0
> rx packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> tx packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carriesr:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>ppp0 link encaop:point-to-point protocol
> inet addr:212.49.253.217 p-t-p:212.49.224.160
>mask:255.255.255.255
> up poitopoint running noarp hulticast mtu:1500 metric:1
> rx packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> tx packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueulen:10
>
>
>
>route -n
>this command produces
>kernel ip routing table
>destination gateway gemmask flags
>metric ref use iface
>212.49.224.160 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 uh 0
>0 0 ppp0
>127.0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 u
>0 0 0 lo
>
------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"---
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Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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