Hi Robert, Thanks for your advice.
- snip - Before starting test as per your advice, following discoveries were found 1) # pppoe pppoe: Timeout waiting for PADO packets (pppoe could not start. It can be started at time of configuring network card after installation of Debian 3.0) 2) /etc/resolv.conf could not be edited even as ROOT (the file can be opened and its content can be edited. But saving is impossible) # cat /etc/resolv.conf search domain.com\000 nameserver 192.168.2.1 # ls -l /etc/resolv.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root > I told pppoeconf that I didn't want to start the network at boot. To start it > anytime: Open an xterm, su to root. Then try this: > > pon dsl-provider > > You can use the "plog" command to see what effect this had, or "ifconfig ppp0" Debian box already automatically connects to ISP after booting (remark: dynamic IP) # ifconfig ppp0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:202.123.68.108 P-t-P:202.123.71.254 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1 RX packets:152 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:73 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 RX bytes:10109 (9.8 KiB) TX bytes:1932 (1.8 KiB) > Similarly to kill the connection: > > poff dsl-provider # poff 202.123.68.108 /usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for provider '202.123.68.108'. None stopped. B.R. Stephen > > > Hi Robert, > > > > Thanks for your advice. > > > > The Debian box is connected to broadband via a ADSL modem with dynamic > > IP. I ran 'pppoeconfig' to setup the connection. Up to this point it > > seemed without problem, ISP connected and confirmed with 'ifconfig'. > > But connection to Internet was blocked. I searched around to find out > > whether the gateway in the network card has entry which will mislead > > looking to the gateway and could not find it. '/etc/init.d/iptables > > stop' reconfirmed firewall having not started (I have not configured > > firewall yet). > > > > I could not discover the cause of blocking connection to Internet. > > > > B.R. > > Stephne > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]