testing PPP connection

[Phil]

I've created a dial-in connection to my ISP,  I pon and get BSD compression 
messages and the like,  the modem lights all go on and seem to be 
functioning properly,  the data transmit lights seem to send the the data 
necessary to logon but browsers don't work in KDE or Gnome.

How can I test this situation in terminal mode to see if this PPP 
connection is really working.  why are the browsers not accessing the web??

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