Can someone help me with my routing table?
Linux box: 172.239.21.23
Win95: 172.239.21.21 (also 172.239.21.20)
Win98: 172.239.21.24 (connected to 172.239.21.20 on Win95 box)
OS/2: 172.239.21.25

At this point, they can all talk to each other and Samba (default stuff)
works.
(ping, ftp, and sharing resources works)  Telnet does not work, but one
thing
at a time.

However, my PPP connection doesn't work correctly in Linux Mandrake 6.1
package.  I connect fine, I can ping the address I get and seem to ping
other
addresses in that domain.  However, I cannot get further than this.  I
send
packets, but get no packets back at all.  After reading books and books
and
How-to and FAQ and everything else I can find, it seems to come down to
routing.  But I don't know exactly what my routing table should look
like and
how to make it stay that way.  A few weeks ago, I tried RH 6.0 package
and
I had PPP working fine, but nothing else could talk.

Can someone please edit the attached routing table to make it work so I
know what to force it to be?  What files to edit and what to make them
be?
At this point, I think I can only make things worse on my own.  Please
include
exact commands if I have to *do* things.  Saying edit xxx and change it
to
the following lines... I can handle that.  But everything else, I'm just
not getting
it.  The FAQs, How-tos and books seem to contradict each other, or be
talking
about an older version of things, or another distribution.  I try to
follow each one's
help and editing/checking files, but all I can manage to do is to make
everything
stop working.

I'll format and reinstall if that helps and I know what to put into each
of the
little files to make this all work.  I can use linuxconf, but netcfg
gives me
errors (I think it's a $DISPLAY thing is not setup, since I have to put
in
video drivers by hand).

Here is what the routing table looks like with PPP "up":
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
0.0.0.0         172.239.21.23   255.255.255.255 UGH   0      0        0
eth0
207.58.20.1     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
ppp0
172.239.21.23   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0
eth0
172.239.21.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0
lo
0.0.0.0         207.58.20.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
ppp0

Also, when the Linux system boots, I get this route in the table, but
have to
delete it so the linux box and win boxes will talk.  I don't know why
it's there.
0.0.0.0         127.239.21.23   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0
lo

Here is what ifconfig looks like:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:AA:00:60:A8:CF
          inet addr:172.239.21.23  Bcast:172.239.21.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:63 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x240

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:177 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:172.239.21.23  P-t-P:207.58.20.1
Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:10

pppd  is version 2.3.8
Here is a part of the log file:
Dec  3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Serial connection established.
Dec  3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Using interface ppp0
Dec  3 09:12:33 aud3 pppd[968]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS1
Dec  3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: Unsupported protocol (0x802b) received
Dec  3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: Unsupported protocol (0x8029) received
Dec  3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: local  IP address 172.239.21.23
Dec  3 09:12:34 aud3 pppd[968]: remote IP address 207.58.20.1
Dec  3 09:16:42 aud3 pppd[968]: Terminating on signal 15.
Dec  3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Connection terminated.
Dec  3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Connect time 4.2 minutes.
Dec  3 09:16:43 aud3 pppd[968]: Sent 3736 bytes, received 309 bytes.
Dec  3 09:16:44 aud3 pppd[968]: Exit.

The "unsupported protocol" messages above are supposed to be ok to
ignore?

Audrey Beck
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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