Would someone please try to enlighten me on how I go about setting a different subnet for ppp0 & eth0 ?
I have a number of real IP addresses for personal use, and I'm apparently supposed to use subnet mask 255.255.255.248 with them on my LAN, but I guess I need to use 255.255.255.0 for the dialup connection to server. I have set 255.255.255.248 OK, but when I dialup and check connection with "ifconfig" is tells me ppp0 is using 255.255.255.248, which I guess isn't good. According to "MAN pppd", it can be changed using "pppd netmask 255.255.255.0", but when I check again with "ifconfig" its still wrong. nslookup seems to tell me that the connection is established OK, but I can only ping one of the two DNS numbers .... the other one doesn't seem to do anything. A couple of people have asked me to send them a copy of various log files or config files or whatever, but when I copy the file to a floppy it immediately becomes unreadable by a Windows box so I haven't been able to do that to date, and I haven't been able to figure how to attach files from a floppy in any linux application so I can send it off via email.
