[hsflinux] pppd help

Tony Earnshaw tonni at billy.demon.nl
Tue Jan 20 01:56:32 EST 2004


ons, 2002-10-16 kl. 22:56 skrev Tony Earnshaw:

> What lousy mail client are you using?

One single line for the whole message. How are people supposed to read
that sort of thing?

> It isn't ppp0 that's supposed to be the gateway, it's the node it's
> connected to by ppp, at the other end that's supposed to be the gateway.

> You shouldn't be able to see ppp0 with root -n (netstat -rn), you should
> be able to see it with ifconfig/ifconfig -a.

That should have been 'route -n', of course.

> It doesn't make a halfpenny worth of difference whether your protocol is
> CHAP or PAP _ as long as you can ping something on the other side, your
> modem is working. Now fix your gateway

Sorry about my bad temper. I have 'flu or something and should be doing
something else than this.

Nevertheless, it still applies.

Best,

Tony

-- 

Tony Earnshaw

"There are many people who can't face the truth ... If you rob a
normal person of life's lies, at the same time you'll be robbing
him of his happiness."

>From Henrik Ibsen's "Vildanden", "The wild Duck."

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