Re: [newbie] kppp help required - SOLVED
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:24, John McQuillen wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:50, Michael Adams wrote: First off GATEWAYDEV=xxx did not exist. So i removed the line stating GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, this made it worse. kppp on-screen log showed as an ATZ once the dialup had completed on the same line as the ATDTO. then it cycled and redialed. So i added GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 and this took me back to the original problem. Most recent /var/log/syslog entries after above changes are as follows. Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost pppd[7776]: pppd 2.4.1 started by gaeil, uid 1001 Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost pppd[7776]: Using interface ppp0 Nov 21 07:48:42 localhost pppd[7776]: Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/ham Nov 21 07:48:43 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is already up Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost kernel: PPP BSD Compression module registered Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost kernel: PPP Deflate Compression module registered Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost pppd[7776]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.0.1] You still have a default route set via eth0, hence the above message. /etc/ppp/options has an option 'defaultroute', you appear to have this option set, as pppd is attempting to add a default route via ppp0. So, try this: remove the GATEWAYDEV line altogether from /etc/sysconfig/network make sure you don't have a file /etc/default-route (you probably don't) as root do 'service network restart' also as root 'route -n' will show you a routing table which should not include a line beginning with '0.0.0.0' (default route). Now when you connect to the Internet, pppd should give you a default route via ppp0. btw, I have GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 in my /etc/sysconfig/network, and it works OK. Perhaps you didn't restart the network? Hope this works for you. Regards, John... I hadn't restarted the network. Egg on face. When i got the computer back with the floppy replaced it worked fine as the network was restarted by the fresh boot. Thanks for your help John. To recap for those following this thread... The computer on 56k MoDem connected ok to the net but web pages were not fetching. I guess this was because the IP request was not sending the correct IP address for my computer but was sending a default address (0.0.0.0). (Correct me if this is wrong John). Konq hummed for a minute then reported unknown host www.xxx.com (irrespective of which site i was attemping to fetch from). The error in /var/log/syslog read Nov 21 07:48:46 localhost pppd[7776]: not replacing existing default route to eth0 [192.168.0.1] The fix was to add the line GATEWAYDEV=ppp0 remove the line GATEWAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx both in /etc/sysconfig/network. Then to do a service network restart as root. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kppp help required - SOLVED
On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 08:20, Michael Adams wrote: The computer on 56k MoDem connected ok to the net but web pages were not fetching. I guess this was because the IP request was not sending the correct IP address for my computer but was sending a default address (0.0.0.0). (Correct me if this is wrong John). Not quite. It wasn't that you were sending a default address. The routing table is specific to your computer and network. Without getting too technical, it works something like this: If you wished to send a message to another computer on your network, say from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.2, your computer begins reading the routing table from top to bottom and stops once it sees that the network 192.168.0.0/24 is on interface eth0. After a further process of finding the specific machine to send to (which I won't go into here), it sends the message through eth0 to the destination. But what happens when you want to communicate with someone outside your network? In the case of the Internet, you can't have listings in your routing table for all the networks out there, so you have a default gateway defined in your routing table, which says, 'if you don't know where this network is, send it here'. The route to the default gateway is the default route, and the default route is notated as 0.0.0.0. It is always the last route in your routing table. All the computers on your network that are not connected to the Internet require a default route that points to the computer that is connected to the Internet. On the computer that is connected to the Internet, you require a default route that points to the Interface that is connected directly to the Internet. In your case, you had a default route and gateway defined in /etc/sysconfig/network pointing to eth0 and kppp was refusing to replace it with a default route pointing to the Internet when it came up. By getting rid of the previous default route, kppp was able to give you a default route (0.0.0.0) to the Internet on interface ppp0. I hope that helps, Kind regards, John... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
