Re: ppp on demand trouble

[Sigmund Svertingsson]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far.

Here is a bit more detail:

Machine "Return" (it lives in my air conditioning return ducting at the end of the hallway) is my gateway to the outside world (via my dial-up ISP). My ISP gives me a dynamic IP address.

I'm pretty sure my statically configured LAN is fine, as I have to ssh into the headless Return machine to do anything.

I uncommented "demand" and "persist" in /etc/ppp/peers/provider and told the machine to "pppd call provider."

The results of "ifconfig ppp0" and "ifconfig eth0" are:

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.64.64.64 P-t-P:10.112.112.112 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:E3:0F:83:A6
inet addr:192.168.1.5 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:56791 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:51685 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:15205639 (14.5 MiB) TX bytes:38855816 (37.0 MiB)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x1f00

But it doesn't dial when it (as I understand it) it should. I have tried firing up Mozilla on the masq'ed machine I'm typeng on now, as well as trying Lynx on the Return machine and pointing it at Google. Nothing provoked any kind of reaction from my spiffy USRobotics external modem.

Then, I commented out "demand" and "persist," killed pppd, and restarted it again. Beep, beep goes the modem, up comes the connection, and here is the ifconfig ppp0 output:

ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:66.81.203.95 P-t-P:66.81.235.139 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1524 Metric:1
RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:66 (66.0 b) TX bytes:87 (87.0 b)

What do I do now?

Siggy




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