Michael Heldebrandt wrote: > I have the same lo lines and mine works fine. How is your eth0 > interface configured? Is it also in /etc/network/interfaces?
No, I'm still in the beginning stages of getting my Linux machine usable, so I haven't networked with my wife's Windows machine yet. I did go ahead and set the Debian machine as the gateway machine (for future masquerading), but I didn't do much else. > More info on it can be found with: > man interfaces Thanks. > It looks like you need a default gateway to the internet through your > ppp0 interface instead of your eth0 Yes! Thank you! Your saying this led me to the solution of my original problem, namely, not being able to connect to the internet. I had thought that I needed such a default gateway, but I understood that it would be set up automatically when I signed on to my ISP (which, in fact, is true). > pppd should allow you the option of configuring a default gateway for > the ppp0 interface in the config files for your specific host. Yes, the configuration file is /etc/ppp/peers/provider. The keyword to set the option is "defaultroute". But this was already set properly, so there was some other problem. As you suspected, it was the eth0 default gateway. I deleted it and the problem was fixed. Well...not entirely. I can't make the solution stick. When I reboot, my default gateway gets reset to the original eth0 interface! How can I change this permanently? Also, according to one person, when I do get around to setting up my LAN, I'm supposed to set up my ethernet gateway as a *network* route using the "add -net" option of the route command; but this was not suggested at http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=2b86ab0506c3635d&rnum=2 where this very problem seems to have been the topic. Does anybody know? Thank you! Charles