Good morning, I have a 56k dialup/firewall box using Debian 2.2.17
I configured the dialup connection using 'ppp-config' and selected 'demand' dial however after reboot doing 'netstat -nr' returns only "192.168.1.10 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 eth0" When I ping an address out on the net it won't dial out. If I type 'pon' and then 'netstat -nr' i get a proper routing table as below "10.112.112.112 0.0.0.0 UH ppp0" 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 U eth0 0.0.0.0 10.112.112.112 UG ppp0 and I can now ping out of my lan to an ip on the net. Because I an using IRQ-5 on my modem I must also do a 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5" before dialing. I am curious as to why the modem does not dial out after setting 'demand' in 'ppp-config' ? I set 'defaultroute' in ppp-config. My most urgent question here is in what config file should I enter the commands to 1. do 'setserial /dev/ttyS3 IRQ 5" after boot. 2. do 'pon' after boot. I'm a former Redhat user... With Redhat I would put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local but I noticed that my Potato install has no file /etc/rc.d/rc.local... so what file in Debian 2.2.17 performs rc.locals functions? Also one other question, when doing tail -f /var/log/messages I notice that when I'm dialed up but the connection is just sitting there dooing nothing for a while I get a bunch of '---MARK---' messages and I'm wondering what they mean. Thanks for any help you can give me. John _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
