Starting a new thread: I seem to have got connected to a vpn server after reading the Debian Howto but I don't know what to do next. Here is the output of ifconfig -a, which seems to show that ppp0 is running. But I'm not connecting via it.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:48:79:88 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:16 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:00:b8:06:8e inet addr:192.168.0.8 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::221:ff:feb8:68e/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:605490 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:114564 TX packets:412922 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:832093529 (793.5 MiB) TX bytes:39268298 (37.4 MiB) Interrupt:17 eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:81:48:79:88 inet addr:169.254.7.139 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 Interrupt:16 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:46 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2660 (2.5 KiB) TX bytes:2660 (2.5 KiB) pan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 2e:4d:01:26:b6:8c BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:10.83.0.17 P-t-P:10.83.0.1 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1396 Metric:1 RX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 RX bytes:2351 (2.2 KiB) TX bytes:80 (80.0 B) Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk - sample my ebooks at http://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/acampbell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100415143759.ge7...@acampbell.org.uk