On Wed, 6 May 1998, Mike Pumford wrote:

> AFAIK routed is the only thing that I tripped over while setting up pppd.
> The only other thing I can think of is that defaultroute has not been
> specified in /etc/ppp/options or on the command line.

Yep, routed is indeed not running, and defaultroute is specified in
etc/ppp/peers/compulink ... hence gets noticed by 'pppd call compulink'

> If none of the above suggestions work what is the output of 'route show'
> when the PPP link is up?

This prints its header then sits there for ages without doing anything (of
order minutes) then gives: 

default		194.153.0.37	UG
localhost	127.0.0.1	UH
194.153.0.37	197.153.7.54	UH

Where 0.37 is the cluster I get connected to at compulink, and
197.153.7.54 is me.

an ifconfig -a produces:

lo0: flags=8009<UP,LOOPBACK,MULTICAST> mtu 32976
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
sl0: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
sl1: flags=c010<POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST> mtu 296
ppp0: flags=8051<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	inet 197.153.7.54 --> 194.153.0.37 netmask 0xffffff00 
ppp1: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
tun0: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500
tun1: flags=10<POINTOPOINT> mtu 1500


I hope these throw light on the matter for someone!

Cheers,

Bill