Jon,
>
> Before you dial in, open a shell (xterm) and type 'route -v' or jusr
'route'
> and see what the default route is. Then, dial in, and when connected,
> again type route. See if you are winding up with TWO default routes,
> one your eth0 device, and one your ppp0 device. Also check the
> MTU setting of ppp0 ( type 'ifconfig'). If you find it anything but 1500,
> then you need to set it to 1500 (like I found mine was at 1514 or some
> such silly number. I use KPPP which allows you to specify command
> line options to the pppd such as "mtu 1500", and also add to advanced
> options 'before dial-ing" and "after disconnect" commands like
> "route del default -dev eth0" and "route add default -dev ppp0"
> or similar (from memory so do "man route" to verify the syntax). All
> these issues were preventing me too, from pining or getting to domains
> or making it really sporatic under default network setup with 6.0. All
> fixed now with items I spoke of....
>
So you are saying that these pre and post calls have to be made now when
using PPP? Do you know (anyone?), as to why this has changed? This is NOT
how it was before with 6.0 and earlier! Although I do not use KDE (I use
Gnome), I can still call KPPP to do this (I'll check if RP3 can do similar
things). In anycase, how about your /etc/resolv.conf file - how is it? And
your /etc/nsswitch.conf file? I was able to get it going once yesterday by
manually deleting the default route (I saw a posting by someone else on
Usenet about it), before using ppp, and I was able to connect and run a
couple of clients, however, IP Masquerading broke on me, and in the process
of understanding why, I may had broken more things because the "trick" of
deleting the default route associated with eth0 (in my case), does NOT seem
to work in that the clients are "NOT finding the hostnames" (XChat/Netscape,
etc)...
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions... If you have IP Masquerading going,
please let me know ho you got that to work if it had broken on you when
going from 6.0 to 6.1...
Rafael
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