On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:14:32PM -0500, Brian Clark wrote: > > Hi, > > I wrote a little while ago about which module to use for my NIC. Well, > Brian Moore provided me with the answer, which, well, worked a little > too well I think. <g> > > I'm using Potato, as I mentioned, and I loaded the module 3c59x for my > NIC. I'm at home right now, but I plan to take the box I'm working on > back to the office to stick on the LAN to replace an, ehem, Red Hat > box. > > I'm using a modem to apt-get stuff that I need so that I can get the > box ready to go, but I've ran into a small problem. > > I fired up my connection, /var/log/messages said my connection > appeared fine (plus my modem lights told me as well :-P). I have my > resolv.conf entries in tact and I have my network settings set up > properly. > > I went to use apt to get a few things and it just sat there, trying to > connect. > > I took a closer look at /var/log/messages, and I now see an entry I > didn't see before: > > pppd[334]: Serial Connection established pppd[334]: Using interface > ppp0 pppd[334]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS0 pppd[334]: Remote > message: Login Succeeded pppd[334]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp > pppd[334]: local IP address 206.107.101.119 pppd[334]: remote IP > address 206.107.101.159 > > The line referring to `eth0 for proxy arp' looks like the problem, > because it's never been there before on a normal dial-up machine, but > I'm not a network person (*gasp*). > > I can ping myself, of course, but I can't reach the outside world. > > Essentially, I'm just trying to get this thing setup to be able to > plug it in the network and go, but for now I just need to be able to > use ppp to get the packages I need.
You probably don't need proxy arp for anything, so comment out the proxyarp line in /etc/ppp/options. But, I'd suspect the default route might not be set to ppp0, but instead to eth0 -- check it with ifconfig. AFAIK, proxyarp is only necessary for when your machine is accepting dial-ins. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+