> > > I have set up the HP box with RH7.2, to try to make life easy I also > > installed KDE (very pretty). I can make the box dial out and > seem to connect > > to Optusnet, using CHAP or Script (copied from Windows), but > then I can't > > get anything to connect, Konqueror etc all time out. I have set the > > proxy/cache to no proxy, put the Optusnet DNS servers in the > Dialer setup > > and in the Network configuration...but nothing no web no telnet > no ping to > > the big bad world. > > > > I need some help as to what to look at, or perhaps I am not getting the > > right connection to Optusnet, anyone else on their dialup can share the > > connection setup? > > Is your dialup script adding ppp0 as a default route for outbound packets? > > netstat -r is your friend.
when on-line /sbin/ifconfig showed ppp0 and their were a couple of entries in resolv.conf marked as temporary by ppp, /sbin/route did not show anything (I think - the machine is at home), will look with netstat tonight. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
