[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem with Mandrake 9.0

[Paul Ingendorf]

It would be great if you could tell us what kind of ppp connection.  I.E. is
this over a modem or ppp over ethernet for a dsl connection or some kind of
vpn ppp connection.  Given the limited information here the first thing I
would guess is the resolve.conf check /etc/ppp/resolve.conf and see if it is
modified with new dns when you connect if so then make a link from
/etc/resolve.conf to /etc/ppp/resolve.conf .  If this doesn't work then I
would check the routing table on your linux machine with route -n.  You
should see something to the effect

Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
<your peer ip>    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         <your gateway>    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
ppp0

Along with any other interfaces you have.  If you do not have at least these
three then you will have problems connecting and you need to add a route.
You can do this with the command

route -vF add -net 0.0.0.0 gw <your gateway> netmask <your netmask> dev ppp0
route -vF add -host <your peer gateway> dev ppp0

These would probably be the most common items that could cause the issue
your talking about more than likely being the routing if your ppp peer does
respond to icmp packets.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: discuss-admin at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-admin at ntlug.org]On Behalf Of
Pervaz Allaudin
  Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:52 PM
  To: discuss at ntlug.org
  Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Problem with Mandrake 9.0


  I installed the new mandrake 9.0 , replacing RH 7.3.

  The ppp connection is causing me a  heartache. It shows connected and a
destination IP but no browser sees the internet. And any Pinging to the
destination address gives no response and total loss of data.

  Any advice.

  Pervaz
  pervaz at att.net
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