I am trying to set up a new ppp connection with pppconfig. I know the basics of this and have set up ones through bigpond and ozemail and can connect to each with pon bigpond / pon ozemail.
Now this time I am trying to connect through my local university (QUT). I went through the same process in pppconfig and set it up. It connects OK and I can see all the local uni web pages etc. But cannot connect to any address outside the qut network. Here is part of /var/log/syslog showing it has connected: Oct 17 10:53:07 beast pppd[8979]: local IP address 131.181.144.113 Oct 17 10:53:07 beast pppd[8979]: remote IP address 131.181.144.3 Oct 17 10:53:07 beast pppd[8979]: primary DNS address 131.181.127.32 Oct 17 10:53:07 beast pppd[8979]: secondary DNS address 131.181.59.48 Oct 17 10:53:07 beast pppd[8979]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up started (pid 8992) There are some instructions for Redhat users using Kppp which I don't want to use if possible. The instructions talk about setting up a default gateway which is different to the local and remote IP addresses I was assigned above. Here is the relevant part of the instructions for Kppp users: STEP 7 In the New Account dialogue window. Select the Gateway Tab. Check the Static Gateway check box. In the Gateway IP Address: box, enter 131.181.142.1 Check the Assign the Default Route to this Gateway check box. Select the OK button. In step one they also talk about creating a /etc/ppp/ip-up.local file: STEP 1 Open a Console Create/Edit the file /etc/ppp/ip-up.local; Eg. pico /etc/ppp/ip-up.local #!/bin/bash route add default gw $4 route del $5 exit 0 All the rest of the instruction seem to be just generic stuff which I have done with pppconfig - setting the name of the connection, dynamic ip address assignment, assigning dns servers etc. So it seems that I need to change the default gateway (I think?) I checked the routing table: # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface dialin13.net.qu * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 default dialin13.net.qu 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0 I tried deleting these two routes and then adding a default route to 131.181.142.1 but I am not really sure how to do this. Can anyone help me here? Thanks. Mark.