On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:21, Michael Adams wrote: > We are now the proud owners of three Mandrake-Linux computers in a two person > house. My trusty P3-500 on 8.2, the old p1-100 on 7.1, and now a new cheap > preloaded beast (well kitty) from DSE here in New Zealand running 9.0 > download. > > Tried connecting the new one to the net and am having results sort-of. > > It connects but refuses to load a web page. I am resonably certain it is not > DNS resolution because the reported automatic servers both match the ones i > am using on this box. From this /var/log/syslog (below) i wonder if the fault > may be that the address supplied by the ISP over the 56k link is not being > used when requesting pages and that the default localhost address is? > > Any ideas apreciated. > > Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost pppd[9589]: pppd 2.4.1 started by gaeil, uid 1001 > Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost pppd[9589]: Using interface ppp0 > Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost pppd[9589]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ham > Nov 20 12:01:05 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up > Nov 20 12:01:09 localhost pppd[9589]: not replacing existing default route to > eth0 [192.168.0.1]
Try replacing GATEWAYDEV=eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network to GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 and remove GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx altogether. Regards, John...
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