[95099] in RedHat Linux List
Re: dial-up question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anthony E. Greene)
Thu Oct 15 03:13:44 1998
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:00:05 +0200
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From: "Anthony E. Greene" <agreene@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <8625669D.001A2B14.00@ponyexpress.campus.rpslmc.edu>
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At 23:37 1998-10-13 -0500, David_M_Morgan@rsh.net wrote:
>I can get my modem to dial to my ISP with out a problem and even connect
>and authentacate but... I can only ping the ping gateway server for my ISP,
>I know this because I can check the packets to and from. Everything else is
>getting sent out of my NIC card to my home LAN. What is it that I need to
>change?
You need to setup a route to networks other than your own. Since you have a
LAN, your default route has to have a netmask that takes the LAN into
account. I'd advise you to read the PPP-HOWTO on how to do this.
Tony
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