[H-GEN] I hate PPP

[Anthony Towns]

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On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Monica Anthon wrote:
                    ^^^^^^
The sex change operation worked, then, I take it? ;)

> My PPP is dead.  

PPP's a pain. We should all be given ethernet (_not_ ISDN. apparently
that's worse to setup, eh James?) connections to the Internet for
mental health reasons.

> The problem is that once it is established, I cannot connect to anything 
> outside of my LAN.  Pinging 203.20.132.2 doesn't work, 

[203.20.132.2 is the remote point as reported by pppd]

It obviously should. What's your route statement look like? You don't
have an old default route listed before pppd's correct one that's
sending it somewhere else? (that happened to me once, I forget why)

You do have a direct route as well as a default route, I assume?
Invalid query type deni.lovetts.wow.aust.com

(ie: the first line as well as the second, in:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
130.102.2.21    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
0.0.0.0         130.102.2.21    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0       49 ppp0

)

What's the deal with the 10.10.10.200 address it tries for first, do
you know?

Hmmm. What's your firewalling setup? You haven't set it up to deny all
outside packets or anything nasty? (ipfwadm -Iln; ipfwadm -Oln;
ipfwadm -Fln #to display the incoming, outgoing and forwarding
firewall rules respectively, without doing name lookups)

Cheers,
aj

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