[H-GEN] Strange routing and internet problems

[Conor Cunningham]

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Hi all,

I have just updated my linux RH 7 box to RH 7.2 with a fresh install. 
All seems to be nice. However,
the first problem seems to be that my ifconfig output looks like this 
when I am "connected to UQ via PPP"

[root at wintermute root]# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:D0:B7:16:2E:A6
          inet addr:192.168.0.7  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:202 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:8484 (8.2 Kb)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:660 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:44527 (43.4 Kb)  TX bytes:44527 (43.4 Kb)

ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
          inet addr:203.101.243.83  P-t-P:203.101.255.151  
Mask:255.255.255.255
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
          RX bytes:42 (42.0 b)  TX bytes:63 (63.0 b)

BUT, when run route when connected to UQ i get this:

[root at wintermute root]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface

And, it doesnt seem to finish executing, i.e it just hangs there and 
doesnt return to the command line unless you ^c.

If I disconnect from UQ, my route ouput takes this form but still hangs 
without returing to the command line.:

[root at wintermute root]# route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use 
Iface
192.168.0.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo

I cant seem to fix the problem, if anyone knows of a way to help, that 
would be great.

Cheers,
Conor


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