Wa-hey. On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:20:20 +1100 Richard Luckhurst wrote: > I set up 2 Redhat 7.2 boxes over the weekend and I have them connected > with a dial up PPP link. When the link is not up each machine works > fine. When the link is up the machine that started the link has > problems. If I try to ping it from itself I get a connect error > however I can ping the other > machine OK and I can ping the first machine from the second even > though I can't ping it locally. I can't even ping localhost.
What address are you trying to ping? localhost, or the ppp address, or another interface? What output do you get from ifconfig, and 'route -n'? > I have tried to get the ppp link to come up automatically during the > boot process and it works fine. But when i do things this way the > login process, to the kde desktop, takes ages. My home gateway occasionally loses its loopback interface, for reasons I'm yet to fathom. It then starts to act a little like you're describing. But I'm not sure yet. > Does anyone have any clues? I think it was Mr. Green, in the Comms Cupboard, with the Cat-5. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
