On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 17:23, William Chivers wrote: > Hello SLUG members > > I am new to SLUG and I hope that the following request for assistance is > acceptable in this exhalted company.
:) of course. > My problem is Internet access. I can make a connection using ppp, > evidenced by the route and ipcongig commands which show a connection. > However, ftp attempts in an xterm get a "No route to host" error > message, and the browser cannot find URLs or even IP addresses. ok, I've been pondering this problem for a little while. I don't have any quick answers so lets start from the beginning. How are you connecting to the internet? It's been a while since I've played with the mandrake net connectivity stuff - I connect through another box I configured years ago. That said I recommended someone else on this list use "drakconnect" and apparently it worked. Might be worth a try. So anyway, after having run your preferred internet connection "tool", what is in /etc/resolv.conf? You should have at least one nameserver in there. Keep in mind that kppp et al can modify your resolv.conf file, so it might be the same pre-connection but different while connected. Anyway, it needs to be right. The real question though (I think) from the "no route to host" message sounds like you should be looking at the routing table. run 'route -n'. You need to have an host route to the other end of the ppp link and a default route (as a minimum). Can you send us your routing table after connecting? Check if you can ping the other end of the link, then check if you can ping a random IP address. Is the connection staying up? whatever pppd line you're using, ensure that you're using the defaultroute option (or it's in the pppd options file or something). I guess in terms of what to compare to redhat... perhaps /etc/ppp/options - It's very hard to say from here. It's also worth looking in the logs. The relevant log is somewhere in /var/log. It could be messages, it could be something else depending on how you have your box configured (I can't remember mandrake's defaults right now). HTH James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
