>On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:43:27PM -0400, Sandy Shapiro wrote: > I >installed Debian (Slink) on another computer, and I think I may have > >missed something in setting up the ppp connection. >> >> I can dial out, connect to, and log on to my ISP. But when I try to ping a >> site, I get the error message: unknown host. When I use Mozilla, it says: >> Unable to locate the server. >> >> Ifconfig says that ppp is running. >> Wvdial says ppp negotiation detected; starting pppd. >> >> Everything seem to be working except I can't communicate with the ISP. >> >> Is there something I can edit to fix this? >> >> Is more information needed? >---end quoted text---
>This is similar to a problem I had (still have?). >Upon dialling up to my isp, the "default route" was >eth0 rather than ppp0. This meant ping, and any nameserver >request was directed along eth0 rather than to the >appropriate location ppp0, and thus those utilities >never returned with any kind of successful result. >(I'm running a local ethernet in addition to dialing >up to my isp). >If you think this might be your problem, a way to check >is to > cat /proc/net/route Here it is: Dest Gateway Flags RefCnt Use Metric Mask MTU Window IRTT 42006E89 00000000 0005 0 0 0 FFFFFFFF 0 0 ppp0 00000000 42006E89 0003 0 0 0 00000000 0 0 ppp0 Does this help? Thanks, Sandy >(as running "route" to see the list of routes is futile, or at least very >time-consuming). >If the last entry is not ppp0, try the following commands >route del default eth0 (or whatever the device is on that last line) >route add default ppp0 >HTH
