[H-GEN] ppp pleez..
Craig Eldershaw
ce at comlab.ox.ac.uk
Sun Sep 20 08:08:18 EDT 1998
Hi Andy,
>i still have a problem hooking up via ppp, tho' from my reading of the
>debugging output everything seems fine at this end; i have a ream of
>output from syslogd and i can't talk to anyone!
Who can't you talk to ? Can you not reach any computer other than your
own ?
Several diagnostic tests:
ifconfig
Should say something comforting about ppp0 being up.
ping <your-own-ip>
If this doesn't work, then networking is badly broken at your end -
bring it into Humbug for a checkover. :-) (oh, and ip, means a
number [eg. 11.222.123.221], not a hostname). If you have a
dynamicly allocated ip, then skip over this for a moment.
ping <ppp-other-end>
Again, you want a number here, not a name. This is the ip of the
machine at your isp's end. You probably have it as an option to ppp
on the right hand side of a `:'. If this doesn't work then the ppp
link itself is at fault.
ping 130.102.2.20
ping student.uq.edu.au
If the first works, but not the second, then you have a DNS problem,
check your /etc/host.conf, /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf
files. If they both work, then waht are you complaining about ? :-)
If neither works, then your routing is probably broken; check your
default route (give the command "route", or if that fails, try
"route -n").
If still stuck, then report back to the list with the results of the
above tests, and a copy of your ppp configuration file/command-line
options.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Craig.
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