On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Simon Bryan wrote: > > > 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.
If /sbin/route didn't show anything, that's your problem. You _must_ have a default route to your ppp0 interface if you want to use it for internet traffic. Try adding the "defaultroute" keyword to your ppp dialing script/pppd command line. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
