On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:29:00PM +0200, Xavier de Labouret wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to connect with PPPOE following the instructions at this URL:
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/pppoe/
> 
> The manual connection attempt let me connect to a PPPOE server (i
> was given a dynamic IP). The problem was, i could not ping any internet
> host! Setting my internet gateway as my default route did not solve the
> problem. 
> 
> Interestingly, the "permanent" connection (at boot, with ifwatchd) worked
> fine.
> 
> But can anyone explain me why i could not access to the internet with
> manual connection? 

Is your resolv.conf setup properly ?
Do you have a default route installed (check with netstat -rn) ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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