Hi Chris, what about the output of 'ip route' ? another check if the PPP
session is connected is that 'ip link' should report 'UP' within these
<brackets>. 'ip addr' will print the current IP of each interface (if
any). the 'route' and 'ifconfig' commands should still work though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iproute2
after wvdial does it's thing, i think you should expect to see something
similar to the below for 1x Ethernet interface and a PPP default route:
stuart@yasui:~$ ip route
123.123.123.456 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 123.123.123.789
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.100
metric 2
default dev ppp0 proto static
stuart@yasui:~$ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1e:33:82:4a:a1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
22: ppp0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 3 link/ppp
again, good luck!
-Stuart
On 11/06/12 16:25, chris wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:56 PM, chris <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 12:19 +1200, Stuart MacIntosh wrote:
>>>> there is a nice utility called 'pppconfig' - you could try using that
>>>> for configuring the PPP interface and run 'man interfaces' to get an
>>>> idea of how the interfaces file should look. btw, if you're just after a
>>>> PC-based router, you'll probably be impressed by pfSense.
>>>>
>>> I have actually used pppcongfig, but am not getting anywhere..
>>> I am not using a router, just a simple 56k modem. through wvdial etc I
>>> can connect, but web browser email etc seems to think the system is off
>>> line.
>>> So where can I go from here please?
>>> regards Chris
>> Modems, so old fashioned, most people have forgotten how to set them
>> up, particularly in linux. A dying art (thank heavens).
>>
>> Start some simple tests when you are online.
>>
>> ping an expernal IP address like 203.96.152.4 (one of telstra's dns servers).
>>
>> If that works try somewhere by name, I usually ping www.ihug.co.nz
>> because it is a short domain name that I can remember.
>>
>> Also if you think your routing is wrong, what is the output of route -n?
>>
> Results from ping Destination unreachable.
>
> route -n no route found
>
> So where do I go from here please
> regards Chris
>
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