Hi. Thanks to everybody who's tried to help. I'm not running any firewall stuff, so I didn't even compile that into the kernel (was that a mistake?), and I don't have any of the ipchains stuff. Does running PPP off of Telesys automatically put me behind a firewall or something? Attached are the outputs from the relevant commands some have suggested. The tcpdump was from when I tried to access slashdot.org from Lynx. I also added ifconfig just in case. One thing I did notice was that ifconfig had the netmask as 255.255.255.255 for the SLIP connection (which works), so I tried setting it as that for PPP too, but everything stopped working then (ie, no hosts found at all). Thank you very much, MZhang
[root@gauss ~]# route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 128.83.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo [root@gauss ~]# netstat -rn Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 128.83.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo [root@gauss ~]# tcpdump tcpdump: listening on ppp0 13:00:46.801590 dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1031 > cs.utexas.edu.domain: 38536+ A? slashdot.org. (30) 13:00:46.803378 dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1032 > cs.utexas.edu.domain: 40512+ (43) 13:00:46.958465 cs.utexas.edu.domain > dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1031: 38536 1/2/2 (121) (DF) 13:00:46.981486 dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1035 > cs.utexas.edu.domain: 20876+ A? slashdot.org. (30) 13:00:46.998469 cs.utexas.edu.domain > dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1032: 40512* 1/4/4 (246) (DF) 13:00:46.998891 dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1036 > cs.utexas.edu.domain: 40513+ (44) 13:00:47.108471 cs.utexas.edu.domain > dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1035: 20876 1/2/2 (121) (DF) 13:00:47.168461 cs.utexas.edu.domain > dial-74-9.ots.utexas.edu.1036: 40513* 1/4/4 (257) (DF)
