I have encountered a strange problem with dialing out on PPP, and it is really bugging me now.
I have got a slightly adnormal server running. This is what it looks like. I have got a local network running on and arcnet card whos address is 192.168.0.1, This works I and doesn't seem to stop working. I also have a hacked DNS server for my dial-up users which gets shut off when I go online. The problem is I can connect to my server and everything looks 100% except for the fact I can't do anything on the Internet. When I have connected and type in ifconfig this is what I am given : lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 arc0 Link encap:1.5Mbps ARCnet HWaddr 50 inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 IPX/Ethernet 802.3 addr:00000123:000000000050 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:140 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 TX packets:218 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x260 Memory:d1000-d17ff ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol inet addr:196.25.198.23 P-t-P:196.25.198.2 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:11 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 TX packets:37 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 This looks normal except for the ppp errors in which there is only one. If I do a route -n this is what I am given : Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 196.25.198.2 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 1 ppp0 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 2 arc0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 4 lo 0.0.0.0 196.25.198.2 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 1 ppp0 This also looks right. Now for some init files... My /etc/init.d/network file : #!/bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 IPADDR=192.168.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 GATEWAY=none ifconfig arc0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST} route add -net ${NETWORK} route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1 This as far as I can see is default unless something has changed without me noticing. My /etc/hosts file : 127.0.0.1 localhost 0.0.0.0 ptest 192.168.0.1 progtest.alt.za progtest My /etc/networks file : loopback 127.0.0.1 localnet 0.0.0.0 alt.za 192.168.0.0 If anyone can shead some light on this I would be very happy. This has been bugging me for the past two months. Thanks, Robert. --- +-----------------------------------------------+ | Robert Moody Sysop of Programmer's Test BBS. | | Running well on Debian ver 1.2 Kernel 2.0.27 | | http://www.zsd.co.za/~ptest/ | | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +-----------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .