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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!csn!nntp-xfer-1.csn.net!torn!onlink3.onlink.net!pheebs.citytel.net!kwoody From: "Keith W." <kwoody@pheebs.citytel.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: My routing table...how bad is it? Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:38:11 -0700 Organization: Ontario Northland--ONLink Lines: 29 Approved: Hopefully all the time! Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.970421103013.14617D-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.970413223313.18259A-100000-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> <guhl-1604971052290001@m15081-mac.mitre.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: pheebs.citytel.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <guhl-1604971052290001@m15081-mac.mitre.org> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39489 > > > > The router MUST BE your gateway address since you dial to it > over a ppp connection. Given the routing table listed above, > The only path to 204.244.99.65 is through your default route. > If the router knows nothing about 204.244.99.65, you will won't > be able to get there. I would imagine that the dial-up router would know about 99.65 else my other connections would not work. > > If you manually change the default route, you won't be able to > communicate over your ppp connection. You MUST use the router > you dial into since it is the next hop. Yes Ive come to figure that out now. Others have explained this also and just need to configure things properly on my end. Now that Ive reinstalled I can do so from scratch with what I have learned from here. > > Well off to read the faq and handbook again... > > Thanks for any info... > > Keith > > Your router should have a path to 204.244.99.65. Try a ping to > that address or even better, try a traceroute. I will once I get it working! Thanks again for the info, much appreciated! Keith