[NTLUG:Discuss] PPP Internet connection problems - Mandrake 9.1

[Randall Gibson]

kdj1 at ticnet.com wrote:

> Thanks for the Google reference, Jack!  The ping error message is 
> corrected and, after a chmod, ping can be executed by all users.  Now 
> internet shows 100% packet loss, while lan still shows good.  
> Interesting note - while viewing ping file permissions, Konqueror 
> showed that user/group was root, user had r-w-e, group and others had 
> r---e permissions.  Sure wasn't so.  Ping only worked from root until 
> I did a chmod +s on it.

On my laptop, whenever I connect via ppp, I have to modify the routing 
table because it doesnt seem to get done corectly by ppp. Something to 
do with a previous default route (lan)
Try this:
/sbin/route add default ppp0
Hope that helps :)