On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:11, Andy Leach wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 10:30, Andy Leach wrote: > >>Morning, hope you all had a good night - > > > >Yes, thank you for your concern. > > > >For some reason your connection to the isp has not given you a routeable > > ip number. > > > >Is this machine connected to a LAN at the same time as it tries to connect > > to the wider Internet? > > > >I ask because if you have an existing default route via an ethernet card > > the isp cannot over-ride it. > > > >It looks to me as if you have made a ppp connection to the isp's terminal > >server all right but the pap/chap or dhcp negotiations have yet to take > >place. Therefore you do not have either a route to the wider world, nor a > >world visible ip number. > > > >Presumably the command > >ping -c3 17.254.3.183 > > this causes the modem to dial and a connection to be made to the outside > world
And then what happens? Anything interesting in the messages log file? > >( This is the apple.com number, and the do have a ping available on it. ) > > > >produces a message about "no route to host" or some such? > > > >You might find a hint or two in the /var/log/messages file. > >with the connection up via the ping > > a line is in there that contains "local IP address changed to > 202.150.99.176" Ah, Now that's interesting. I wonder why it's not reflected in the output of ifconfig? could you please try ifconfig again. this time could you type it without any argument. It will then report all the interfaces. > a line that fetchmail can't accept options while a background fetchmail > is running > and "ppp filters (out) not running - need 12 bytes more headroom" > > not quite sure what I'm looking for in /var/log/messages though > > >Also a 'cat /etc/resolv.conf' while both on and off line would be > > informative. > > this produces nothing either time, just straight back to the prompt > thanks Chris Um. That means that ip name resolution has not been set up ( yet ). -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
