I'm pretty new to the group to, Bill. Welcome. Questions.
Does the ppp interface appear as the default route once the connection is up? If not, your box doesn't know that it should use ppp0 to get to the outside world. In your pppd service of choice, say kppp, ensure that in the DNS settings for the connection to your ISP you obtain this info from the provider. That may help. 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. > > I am a strong supporter of the open source philosophy and I have been > attempting to use Linux exclusively, at home at least. I use it in my > teaching whenever possible in the Windows site where I work. I have > RedHat 6.1 running on a pentium 166 and on the weekend I installed > Mandrake 9.0 onto an AMDK63 (a very easy installation, by the way) from > the disks on the cover of this month's Australian Personal Computer > magazine. I thought that I would try before buying the boxed set. > > 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. > > I have checked the /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/host.conf files and they > are the same as those on the (fully functional) RedHat machine. > > My question is: What other configuration files should I check and > compare with the RedHat installation? I have tried just about every > combination of parameters in the graphical kppp configuration tool, to > no avail. > > Thank you, > Bill Chivers > > --------------------------------------------- > William J. Chivers > Lecturer in Information Technology > School of DCIT > Faculty of Science and Information Technology > University of Newcastle---Ourimbah Campus > PO Box 127, Ourimbah, NSW 2259 > Australia > > phone: +61 2 4349 4473 > fax: +61 2 4348 4145 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------- > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
