RE: [Sheflug] PPP Trouble - is gated the solution?

["Alan Dawson" <nospam [at] chesterfield.ac.uk>]

James, I was doing something similar, 

I set up my ISP's DNS in YAST and then typed
route add default ppp0
and it worked.

I think theres a better way tho, I'm sure some else will let us know

-----Original Message-----
From: sheflug-bounce@vuw.ac.nz [mailto:nospam [at] vuw.ac.nz]On
Behalf Of James Wallbank
Sent: 26 January 2001 13:46
To: Sheflug
Subject: [Sheflug] PPP Trouble - is gated the solution?


Hi again all,

Second question in one day!

I'm also trying to configure a PPP gateway onto my home network - 
I've got the machine to dial in alright, so now when I ifconfig I see 
3 networks - lo eth0 and ppp0. The only trouble is, I can't seem to 
get any other connection to the outside world. If I try to ping the 
IP number of my provider's DNS server (I like to try something I know 
is there) then I get no contact.

I had though that DNS was the issue, and I'd have to try running 
"bind" at my end - but obviously you don't need to resolve an IP 
number - so it's genuinely the case that my pings aren't getting 
though and DNS isn't the issue.

I'm guessing that my pings are zooming out of eth0 instead of ttyS0. 
In which case, what do I do to route the packets where I want them to 
go? Do I run routed or gated - or is there a simply a config file I 
can edit? (I'm running Debian 2.2 release 2, if that's any help).

Thanks in advance for your help,

James
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