Your default route is probably being set to your ethernet card (assuming
you have one) upon system start-up.  before bringing up your ppp link do

$ route del default

Then bring up the ppp link.  Now packets will leave the ppp interface as
the default, instead of being dumped to eth0.

cheers - eric



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Walker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 1998 7:33 PM
> To:   RedHat PPP List
> Subject:      Trouble connecting
> 
> Hello,
> I have setup everything in netcfg to satisfaction and am having
> problems
> getting connected.  I will dial, then check out /var/log/messages and
> it
> connects ok and gives me an IP address.  But nothing will connect.
> Telnet, FTP, lynx, or Netscape.  Ping works though.  Please help.  I
> have read the PPP Howto but nothing works.
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> Aaron Walker
> 
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