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Re: ppp
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Thu Oct 15 00:19:38 1998
Reply-To: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <pp01138@ppp.kcc.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 00:29:33 -0400
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-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Shaffer <pp01138@ppp.kcc.edu>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 10:30 PM
Subject: ppp
>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?
No
> 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.
If you have a lan card, by default the default route is set to it. You need
to remove the default route setting for your lan card BEFORE bringing up
the link. In the ppp options (using the GUI tools) add "defaultroute
noipdefault".
>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.
>
ppp is a module loaded when the link is established.
-JMS
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