I am really frustrated now. Please help me. I have downloaded the rp-pppoe tarball and untarred and run it.
When I type adsl-start it seems to bring up the connection. ifconfig shows it to be there. # ifconfig ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:61.9.158.110 P-t-P:172.31.16.24 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 But I can't ping anything. When I try and ping the remote IP address I get: # ping 172.31.16.24 PING 172.31.16.24 (172.31.16.24): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 172.31.16.24 64 chars, ret=-1 ping: sendto: Operation not permitted ping: wrote 172.31.16.24 64 chars, ret=-1 --- 172.31.16.24 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss I can't ping the DNS server either. my log file shows the following (cat /var/log/syslog): Apr 8 12:59:41 debian pppd[1218]: pppd 2.4.0 started by root, uid 0 Apr 8 12:59:41 debian pppd[1218]: Using interface ppp0 Apr 8 12:59:41 debian pppd[1218]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/6 Apr 8 12:59:42 debian pppoe[1219]: PADS: Service-Name: '' Apr 8 12:59:42 debian pppoe[1219]: PPP session is 3168 Apr 8 12:59:43 debian pppd[1218]: Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP Apr 8 12:59:43 debian pppd[1218]: local IP address 61.9.158.102 Apr 8 12:59:43 debian pppd[1218]: remote IP address 172.31.16.24 Please help me before I lose all my hair. Regards. Mark.