At 16:18 01/02/00 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>
>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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>Bob Chiodini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Bob, thanks for the thought, but no dice. I have no forwarding rules set,
so everything should be passed through, and still diald remains quiet. I
think the clue lies in the way the route command works. Why should
executing route by itself bring up diald?
Mike S.
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