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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: rgonzale@mli-vtg.com (Robert Gonzales) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Doesn't Work Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 18:52:23 GMT Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc. Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4uaogn$q4k@argentina.earthlink.net> References: <4trg08$c50@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> <4u5673$1cl@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: max1-rs-ca-34.earthlink.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Actually, that is pretty close of what's happening. I didn't metrion that when I start the ppp service I lose the ability to ping anything with or without names. And when I type show IPCP in the ppp program my connection is still going. Puzzling? But my routes look correct to me, but then again I don't know much about tcp/ip. Still working on getting those files posted of my hosts, networks, ppp.conf and ppp.linkup. james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) wrote: >In article <4trg08$c50@ecuador.it.earthlink.net>, >Robert Gonzales <rgonzale@mli-vtg.com> wrote: >> >>I am able to get a connection and login with my service provider. A >>Perfect Connection! The IPCP negotiations get my IP address, which is >>dynamically allocated. The gateway and DNS are set correctly, I got >>the numbers directly from the service provider. My log shows that I >>have the perfect connection. >> >>No errors. And still I am unable to communication via the internet. I >>can't ping, telnet, ftp, nothing. I followed the manuals and man >>pages. Could any tell me what could be happing? I know this account >>works because I can use it with my WIN95 tcpip stack. >Are you using names or IP addresses when pinging machines? Try using >IP addresses. >If IP addresses work and names don't, it must be a DNS problem. If >you can ping the machine you are connected to, but nothing else, you >are missing a "default route" (the output of 'netstat -rn' should show >a route from your IP address to 'default'). >And if you can't ping anything at all, the connection has been lost. :-) >-- >James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland >james@jraynard.demon.co.uk >http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/