On 2011-04-19 16:20, James E. LaBarre wrote:
Some time back I had brought up the issue of trying to get BestWeb
dialup working with Linux (Ubuntu). Some people here had said they had
it working, was wondering what tricks someone might have had for fixing it.
From what I can gather from trying it out again over the weekend, the
dialer (wvdial, GnomePPP, tried both of those) can establish a
connection to the BestWeb POP, will get the IP number (DHCP) and will
set the DNS, but then it can't establish routes.
This doesn't quite make sense; one of the things the DHCP server is
supposed to give a client request is the IP address to the router for
where to send packets to in order to get to the internet; i.e. the
"default Gateway" IP address. What is supposed to happen then is a
route is supposed to be made locally to set the default gateway to that
IP address. That's the only "establish routes" that I believe is
supposed to happen at this point. [At least that's the way it is for
ethernet; it's been SO LONG since I've used dial-up that I can't
guarantee that the same is true for it, but I believe it should be.]
Check what routes get created via 'sudo route -n' next time you try
dialing in, and report back.
Are you using a firewall on that machine? If you are, for starters make
sure that port 53 is open for both TCP and UDP to allow DNS query
traffic to flow.
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