Mike Sandford wrote:
> I once had a working diald and now I don't. I admit to making a change in
> the system configuration somewhere but, and I realise my mistake here, I
> cannot get back to the previous settings. I am now paying for the oversight
> and I apologise for having to ask this question. I have not changed the
> diald parameters.
>
> Problem: diald comes up and appears to set routes but Netscape does not
> find the new interface and diald does not dial out. Previously I noticed
> that when I entered the command 'route' diald would dial out and eventually
> 'route' would show the new dynamic IP numbers on interface ppp0. Now all I
> get is the following:
>
> 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.255 UH 1 0 0 dummy0
> 192.168.1.8 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 sl0
> 192.168.1.8 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 sl0
> 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
> loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
> default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 sl0
>
> I have a simple network of a Linux server running SuSE 6.2, kernel 2.2.13,
> samba, diald 0.99.1, dhcp. I do not use NFS, NIS, named, or routed.
>
> The network functions. User workstations log on, dhcp gives them an address
> and samba communicates.
>
> If I set diald 'up' it dials out and gathers the dynamic addresses
> producing a new route table with sl0 replaced by ppp0, and the new IP
> address in place. But still Netscape does not see the interface.
>
> Any clues please?
>
> Mike Sandford
>
Mike,
Did you happen to change the value for ip forwarding? Somewhere in your
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network (in RedHat) there should be a command like:
echo "$value" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
The $value should be set to 1. This is accomplished in RedHat in by
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network sourcing /etc/sysconfig/network. It should be
something like this:
NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4="yes"
HOSTNAME=host.domain.name
GATEWAY=""
GATEWAYDEV=""
Your distribution may do it a different way.
Bob...
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