Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-08-02 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 01:48 +0800, tan...@hushmail.com wrote: [...] Running ip route gave 203.218.189.254 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 218.102.187.173 On a computer running Debian 7 (Squeeze) which I have acting as a router and firewall, running ip route gives default dev ppp0

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-08-02 Thread tan_ny
On 8/2/2015 at 4:57 PM, Tixy t...@yxit.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 01:48 +0800, tan...@hushmail.com wrote: [...] Running ip route gave 203.218.189.254 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 218.102.187.173 On a computer running Debian 7 (Squeeze) which I have acting as a router and

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-08-02 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2015-08-02 at 19:17 +0800, tan...@hushmail.com wrote: [...] Running ip route add default dev ppp0 solved the problem. Thank you very much! Just out of curiosity, why would a upgrade make the default route disappear? Presumably whatever script or config set's up networking has

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-08-01 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2015 23:39:37 tan...@hushmail.com wrote: Outcome 1 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:c3:7b:9d:d0:d2 inet6 addr: fe80::12c3:7bff:fe9d:d0d2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-08-01 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 02:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Now instead of outcome 1 I have eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:c3:7b:9d:d0:d2 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-08-01 Thread tan_ny
On 1/8/2015 at 10:09 PM, Tixy wrote:On Sat, 2015-08-01 at 02:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] [...] The only place you are getting an IPV4 address is ppp0. And to get that you are running pppoeconf. Are you equipt with some sort of a phone modem card in your machine? ppp0 will

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-08-01 Thread tan_ny
I found something else. On my computer that has a working internet connection netstat -rn shows Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway GenmaskFlags MSS Window irtt Iface 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.00.0.0.0 U

Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-07-31 Thread tan_ny
Hi! I use an ADSL modem to connect to the internet. A few hours ago I ran aptitude safe-upgrade on two computers with sid installed on them. As soon as the upgrade finished I lost my internet connection on both computers. When I rebooted them and ran pon dsl-provider and ifconfig, ppp0 did

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-07-31 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/31/15, tan...@hushmail.com tan...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi! I use an ADSL modem to connect to the internet. A few hours ago I ran aptitude safe-upgrade on two computers with sid installed on them. As soon as the upgrade finished I lost my internet connection on both computers. When I

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-07-31 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 31 July 2015 10:54:31 tan...@hushmail.com wrote: Hi! I use an ADSL modem to connect to the internet. A few hours ago I ran aptitude safe-upgrade on two computers with sid installed on them. As soon as the upgrade finished I lost my internet connection on both computers. When I

Re: Can't connect to the internet after aptitude safe-upgrade

2015-07-31 Thread tan_ny
Outcome 1 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 10:c3:7b:9d:d0:d2 inet6 addr: fe80::12c3:7bff:fe9d:d0d2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:28 errors:0