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

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