Jack,
thanks for the advice. I am not at the machine right now but as far as I
remember I did allow all services on shorewall, thus kind of disabling the
firewall. It didn't work then. Should I uninstall shorewall or do you think just
"service shorewall stop" would do? I'll try tomorrow morning and let you all
know. Thanks a lot BTW,
Marcio Cordero
> You probably have shorewall installed -- Mandrake's default
> configuration can't handle multiple interfaces. It's easy enough to fix,
> but you better disable the DrakConf firewall tool as it will hose you
> back up again :-)
> 
> On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 06:29, Marcio Cordero wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > I have a problem with my dial-up modem. It's just a plain old 56k modem
> I
> 've
> > been using in a computer I had before with MDK 8.0 - 8.2. Since I bought
> > this new machine and installed MDK 9.0 for the first time, I am not able
> to ping
> > anything, not even my provider's nameserver or remote server. I get a
> > connection, yes, and that seems to work like it always has but that's
> all
> . If I
> > ping I domain I get ping: unknown host www.... and if I ping an IP
> addres
> s I
> > just get timeouts.
> > I checked and I don't have any default route with 0.0.0.0. I also don't
> h
> ave
> > GATEWAY entry in /etc/sysconfig/network and I put GATEWAY=ppp0 just to 
> make
> > sure it's correct. There's no network card to blame on setting a default
> > route. Tried the most obvious options in /etc/ppp/options like
> defaultrou
> te and
> > noipdefault. All to no avail. I wouldn't be upset if it wasn't that it
> has
> > always worked with MDK 8.2 and it still works under Win98 (dual boot).
> An
> y help
> > would be GREATLY appreciated :-)
> > TIA,
> > Marcio Cordero
> > 
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