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Re: ppp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darren Greer)
Wed Oct 14 23:03:20 1998
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:45:45 -0500
From: Darren Greer <drgreer@QTIWORLD.COM>
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I doubt if it is a bug, since I am connecting to the net in that manner....that is I am using the network configure program in Xwin. I have also connected using minicom and pppd, and have had no problems...
Darren
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On 10/14/98, at 10:26 PM, Arthur Shaffer wrote:
>There have been several postings by me and others over the last three or
>four days with no response. I will try one more time.
>
>Is there a problem with the network configure program in 5.1? In all
>the previous versions of redhat I have used, you simply entered all the
>info for your isp, acivated the interface and away you went. With 5.1,
>the default route is never set apparently. It is selected in the setup,
>but never implemented. A route -n or ifconfig shows only one ppp route
>with no default. If I ping the connection, it gives a return. However,
>nothing past the ppp connection device is available. I tried to connect
>manually with minicom, but apparently ppp is not compiled into the
>kernal, since pppd will not start due to lack of ppp kernal support.
>
>The FAQ's and HowTo's are useless now, since they are a couple of
>versions old.
>
>
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