>
> Once a PPP connection has been established and a corresponding interface
> has been registered, should we be able to ping it from the machine on
> which it resides?
>
YES, most certainly.
>
> We are having a major problem with our second PPP link to our ISP, in that
> no data can get across the link; we have just noticed that we cannot ping
> the local address. Instead, any packets sent to the interface disappear,
> and are registered by ifconfig as RX errors:
>
> charon:# ifconfig ppp6
> ppp6 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:203.55.169.2 P-t-P:203.29.72.5 Mask:255.255.255.240
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:552 Metric:1
> RX packets:19 errors:149 dropped:149 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:133 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0
> Memory:714038-71449c
Please check your connectivity. Is the LED for link lit on your hub?
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Regards, Andy
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