I'm finally beginning to have some internet here in the Appennine alps. No land line so I have acquired a usb gsm modem. (To be truthful, I still don't know if it will work at the house which also has no mobile signal, but I have a directional antenna with a 10dB gain that may fix that...)
To the point. Trying it out where there is a gsm signal, I have got ppp running, but cannot configure the box with the modem so that both the LAN and the PPP work at the same time. If I 'poff', the lan sort of works. If I 'ifdown eth1' (the wifi built into t he box), the ppp connection resolves correctly. dhclient rewrites resolv.conf giving it one of the nameservers of the provider (Wind), and the router/switch address as the second nameserver. I'm not sure why. The router (D-Link DI524) doesn't actualy seem to do any DNS (although it knows the hostnames and IPs on the internal subnet), so that may be a part of the problem, but the correct nameserver ought to be accessed at least some of the time. dhclient also writes the routing table and maybe I have got something wrong here. netstat -r gives Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface joiner.mulinoca * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 ppp0 when pppd is up. And when eth1 is up, it says Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 default 192.168.133.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 with both up I get Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Windo irtt Iface joiner.mulinoc * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.133.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 default 192.168.133.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 joiner.mulinocarletti.net is the box with both the modem and the lan connection. the lan as you can see is 192.168.133.x and the modem local address insists on being 192.168.100.101. joiner has both addresses in its /etc/hosts, which is I suppose the reason the name is shown in the routing table rather than the IP allocated by wind.it. I feel even more confused now, so I hope this makes sense to somebody. I wondered if I should reconfigure the whole lan to be on the same subnet as the Wind modem, though I cannot see why that should be necessary. Any ideas? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
