Sorry--so I lied ... :-) I tried again to dialup on to ISP, finding that pon has a log file.
This is part of it: does this say why it does not work? (Where is the eth0 address 192. ... kept? it is not in /etc/hosts..) Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 <addr 137.111.7.203> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: rcvd [IPCP ConfAck id=0x2 <addr 137.111.7.203> <compress VJ 0f 01>] Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.1.2] Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: local IP address 137.111.7.203 Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: remote IP address 137.111.7.4 Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 1489) Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 1489), status = 0x1 Lancre:/usr/share/doc/ppp# plog Apr 4 13:47:56 Lancre pppd[1474]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x1 magic=0x569036f] Apr 4 13:47:56 Lancre pppd[1474]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x1 magic=0x0] Apr 4 13:48:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x2 magic=0x569036f] Apr 4 13:48:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x2 magic=0x0] Apr 4 13:48:56 Lancre pppd[1474]: sent [LCP EchoReq id=0x3 magic=0x569036f] Apr 4 13:48:56 Lancre pppd[1474]: rcvd [LCP EchoRep id=0x3 magic=0x Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
