Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > >> However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've >> got an entry export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 which is probably what I don't >> want in the first place. I'll comment that out, and

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Derek Broughton
Alessandro Speranza wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've got an entry export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 which is probably what I don't want in the first place. I'll comment that out, and see if that works. OK, we're

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > >> However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've >> got an entry export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 which is probably what I don't >> want in the first place. I'll comment that out, and

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Derek Broughton
Alessandro Speranza wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've got an entry export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 which is probably what I don't want in the first place. I'll comment that out, and see if that works. OK, we're gett

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've got > an entry > export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 > which is probably what I don't want in the first place. I'll comment that > out, and see if that works. > All right, problem solved.

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > However, I just noticed that on my /etc/netenv/uliss-home entry I've got > an entry > export GATEWAY=127.0.0.1 > which is probably what I don't want in the first place. I'll comment that > out, and see if that works. > All right, problem solved.

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Hrm. That routing table is in a bad way. You route the loopback address > via your Ethernet adapter, and have a default route gatewayed to > 127.0.0.1, neither of which are even *close* to right. All rightthat's, if I got it right, what also Der

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-23 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Hrm. That routing table is in a bad way. You route the loopback address > via your Ethernet adapter, and have a default route gatewayed to > 127.0.0.1, neither of which are even *close* to right. All rightthat's, if I got it right, what also Der

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> Two other things that may be helpful: if you post the routing table >> *before* you dial out with ppp, > > all right, that's the whole story: > I start from > > Kernel IP routing table > Destinatio

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> >> Two other things that may be helpful: if you post the routing table >> *before* you dial out with ppp, > > all right, that's the whole story: > I start from > > Kernel IP routing table > Destinatio

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Derek Broughton
Alessandro Speranza wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Derek Broughton wrote: Surely that's plain wrong. 127.0.0.1 isn't your gateway - either with eth0 or ppp0. not my faultI think Sure :-) But I still think it's a problem. You have: In my configuration, lo is: > 127.0.0.0 127.0

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Derek Broughton wrote: > Surely that's plain wrong. 127.0.0.1 isn't your gateway - either with > eth0 or ppp0. not my faultI think > > If you have _any_ gateway set, pppd won't set a defaultroute, even if > the gateway is not on the ppp0 interface. According to

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Derek Broughton
Alessandro Speranza wrote: > 0.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 lo Surely that's plain wrong. 127.0.0.1 isn't your gateway - either with eth0 or ppp0. If you have _any_ gateway set, pppd won't set a defaultroute, even if the gateway is not on the ppp0 interface. According to y

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Derek Broughton
Alessandro Speranza wrote: On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Derek Broughton wrote: Surely that's plain wrong. 127.0.0.1 isn't your gateway - either with eth0 or ppp0. not my faultI think Sure :-) But I still think it's a problem. You have: In my configuration, lo is: > 127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi there On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Two other things that may be helpful: if you post the routing table > *before* you dial out with ppp, all right, that's the whole story: I start from Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Derek Broughton wrote: > Surely that's plain wrong. 127.0.0.1 isn't your gateway - either with > eth0 or ppp0. not my faultI think > > If you have _any_ gateway set, pppd won't set a defaultroute, even if > the gateway is not on the ppp0 interface. According to

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Derek Broughton
Alessandro Speranza wrote: > 0.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 lo Surely that's plain wrong. 127.0.0.1 isn't your gateway - either with eth0 or ppp0. If you have _any_ gateway set, pppd won't set a defaultroute, even if the gateway is not on the ppp0 interface. According to you

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi there On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Two other things that may be helpful: if you post the routing table > *before* you dial out with ppp, all right, that's the whole story: I start from Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bill Marcum wrote: > >> Do you have any other network device with a default route? > > I usually do, but I bring it down before opening pppd, with ifconfig > eth0 down etc. Two other things that may be helpful: if you post t

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bill Marcum wrote: > Do you have any other network device with a default route? I usually do, but I bring it down before opening pppd, with ifconfig eth0 down etc. > What is the > output of 'route -n' when ppp is connected? > After pppd connection has started, I get: Kernel

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-22 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bill Marcum wrote: > >> Do you have any other network device with a default route? > > I usually do, but I bring it down before opening pppd, with ifconfig > eth0 down etc. Two other things that may be helpful: if you post t

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-21 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bill Marcum wrote: > Do you have any other network device with a default route? I usually do, but I bring it down before opening pppd, with ifconfig eth0 down etc. > What is the > output of 'route -n' when ppp is connected? > After pppd connection has started, I get: Kernel

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-20 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:42:02PM +, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > > Add the 'defaultroute' option, or remove 'nodefaultroute', from the > > options passed to the pppd process. > > > > I've got that set already in the /etc/ppp/peers/gprs, althou

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-20 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:42:02PM +, Alessandro Speranza wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > > > Add the 'defaultroute' option, or remove 'nodefaultroute', from the > > options passed to the pppd process. > > > > I've got that set already in the /etc/ppp/peers/gprs, althou

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Add the 'defaultroute' option, or remove 'nodefaultroute', from the > options passed to the pppd process. > I've got that set already in the /etc/ppp/peers/gprs, although I'm not really sure if wvdial evere reads that file. Actually, it looks like tha

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: [...] > Anyway, here's my questions, non strictly laptop specific, but very > much related to it 1)When I start pppd connection (I use wvdial, I > find it a lot easier and intuitive), I get [...] > So far, so good then. However, when I ping, I don

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Alessandro Speranza
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote: > > Add the 'defaultroute' option, or remove 'nodefaultroute', from the > options passed to the pppd process. > I've got that set already in the /etc/ppp/peers/gprs, although I'm not really sure if wvdial evere reads that file. Actually, it looks like tha

Re: pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Alessandro Speranza wrote: [...] > Anyway, here's my questions, non strictly laptop specific, but very > much related to it 1)When I start pppd connection (I use wvdial, I > find it a lot easier and intuitive), I get [...] > So far, so good then. However, when I ping, I don

pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi folks After the mobile phone nightmare, I finally decided and got the motorola c350. Thanks a lot for all your help. The mobile I got is cheap, it works, and comes with an excellent flat rate by vodafone that allows 24h gprs connection at 20 Euro a month. Also, the usb cable, being a normal cabl

pppd gateway/software suspend

2004-03-19 Thread Alessandro Speranza
Hi folks After the mobile phone nightmare, I finally decided and got the motorola c350. Thanks a lot for all your help. The mobile I got is cheap, it works, and comes with an excellent flat rate by vodafone that allows 24h gprs connection at 20 Euro a month. Also, the usb cable, being a normal cabl