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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Tom Dunstan <tommyd@senet.com.au>, Stephen Donaldson <tommyd@senet.com.au>
  Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:03:44 +0900

Re: manduck 7.1 connections

At 11:50 PM 6/26/00 +0930, Tom Dunstan wrote:
>Stephen Donaldson wrote:
>
>> Once connected to the ISP I can't ping or  telnet any site, NOT even the
>> remote address given to me by the ISP.  The terminal just hangs until I
>> press crtl-C.
>
>Hmm, since you're talking about the address given to you, I'm assuming
>you've
>done an ifconfig or something similar to make sure the interface is up.
>Maybe
>the default route isn't getting set correctly? do "/sbin/route -n" to
>make 
>sure that the destination 0.0.0.0 (the default route) is being sent down
>ppp0.
>if not, you can do "route add default ppp0" I think to add it
>temporarily, or
>make sure that the ppp0 interface is set as the default route more
>permanently.
>I'm not sure about Mandrake, but Redhat, which it's based on, has an
>option in
>the /etc/sysconfig/network file which goes something like this on my
>system:
>GATEWAYDEV="eth0"
>if you make that ppp0, and make sure you don't have a GATEWAY variable
>in there
>(since that should be set automatically by pppd), pppd should add itself
>as the
>default route next time you bring the interface up.

Hi, I don't think that this will work, because the interface is brought up
well after the networking stuff is up.

However, pppd allows you to automatically add a default route through the
interface just brought up, and pppd allows you to run a script when the
link is up (IPCP comes up, or some such). You can add routes there.

>Huh, there's probably a really easy gui checkbox in the dialler you're
>using, I
>dunno. Look for anything about a default route.
>
>Tom
>
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Regards
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