Are you running routed? ppp seems to have problems setting the
	route if routed is running...


		David/abs

  -- "Its hard to say it... I hate to say it... but its probably me..." --

On Mon, 11 Aug 1997, Thomas Boroske wrote:

> 
> Hello !
> 
> 
> I've just tried to connect to the internet using pppd.
> I've set up a chat script that does the connect etc, and when I call pppd
> the login works fine. 
> 
> I can ping the remote host OK, but whenever I try another host (eg the 
> nameserver) I get "no route to host". When I try a named host, I get 
> "can't resolve" obviously.
> 
> netstat -r shows a route to the gateway. However, the problem seems to 
> be that this isn't set as the default route.
> 
> My question: How is this done ? I thought that pppd does that by itself.
> In fact, when I kill pppd, it tries to delete the default route but fails
> of course.
> 
> Another sign that there's something wrong is that in most cases, just after
> pppd has connected, I get a message from routed saying "Network is down"
> giving the remote ip adress.
> 
> I've spent the whole night in this problem, but couldn't find a solution.
> 
> I'll post the relevant files (those that I changed) here, perhaps someone
> can have a look ? 
> 
> Oh, this is using the 1.3 beta release, though I'm not sure where pppd 
> came from.
> 
> UnixFS:$.etc.ppp.chat/scr:
> TIMEOUT 60
> ABORT BUSY
> ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
> ABORT "NO CARRIER"
> "" AT&F0
> OK ATZ
> OK ATDT387510
> ogin: y0001006
> assword: ******
> "MTU is" "\d\d\d\d\d\c"
> 
> 
> UnixFS:$.etc.ppp.options 
> 
> connect 'chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chat.scr' 
> lock
> noipdefault
> defaultroute
> ipcp-accept-local
> ipcp-accept-remote
> -ac
> -pc
> -bsdcomp
> user y0001006
> crtscts
> debug
> /dev/tty00
> 115200
> 
> There's also a pap-secrets file with my password, but I don't think that's
> needed as chat is used for the login.
> 
> UnixFS:$.etc.host/conf :
> 
> hosts bind
> 
> UnixFS:$.etc.hosts :
> 
> 127.0.0.1		localhost
> 127.0.0.2		myname.my.domain 
> 
> I added the second entry because without one /etc/netstart would always 
> fail when trying to do a "route add myname.my.domain localhost".
> ???
> 
> UnixFS:$.etc.resolv/conf :
> 
> search rz.tu-bs.de tu-bs.de
> nameserver 134.169.9.107
> 
> 
> I hope someone can help me.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Boroske
>