At 2004-11-12T11:54:53+1300, Andy Leach wrote:
> OKAY!!! it dialed, I got a connection, I heard the modem doing its
> thing. All 3 packets went and came back safely without loss in 278ms,
> 279ms and 278ms
Good news.
> the kinternet connection has now got two plugs, however, ping
> www.google.com gives the same name failure problem as does ftp
Okay, that explains the RFC1918 address you start off with after
starting KInternet--since you're using dial-on-demand, you need some
valid and unique address for the ppp0 device. Once traffic passes
across that connection, the dial up is triggered.
(I don't use dial-on-demand, so I haven't seen this before.)
> I'm saying that i get a kinternet log of
> SuSE Meta pppd ( smpppd-ifcfg), Version 1.16 on linux
[...]
> Status is: lurking
> pppd[0]: local IP address 192.168.99.1
> pppd[0]: remote IP address 192.168.99.99
> regardless of whether th modem is plugged in or not, yes. with the
> connection in place now the next lines added are
Right. That makes sense given the use of dial-on-demand.
> pppd[0]: starting link
> Establishing connection due to activity
If you run the following after this point, you should find that ppp0 has
a public IP address:
# ifconfig ppp0
> it then goes on with various line of initialization, authentication
> etc. all of which seems to have been succesful - is the full log
> entry required here?
> hopefully this gives a new pointer to what exactly i did here...
> thanks
Well, we've come somewhat full circle. Can you tell us where you're
seeing the "/etc/resolv.conf does not exist" error you mentioned in your
first post about this problem? That file is supposed to contain details
of your ISPs DNS servers; without those details, domain name lookups
(e.g. trying to find out the IP address of www.google.com) will fail.
For a standard pppd(8), specifying 'usepeerdns' in your /etc/ppp/options
file is the usual way to get pppd(8) to store the ISP-supplied DNS
details into /etc/resolv.conf. There should be an easier way to ensure
this happens via SuSE's graphical configuration utilities, though. I'm
not familiar with SuSE dial-up stuff, so perhaps Volker can fill in the
details.
Cheers,
-mjg
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