ppp problem

person · 12-17-2003, 01:25 PM

I was just configuring PPP on a new installation, and it dials and seems to connect just fine. I ping the remote computer that I'm connected to and that works. Then I try to ping another computer, such as my nameserver, and I always get:
connect: Network is unreachable
I looked through the log file and it seems to have authenticated just fine. We also negotiated IP addresses without any problems. Any ideas?

thereof · 12-17-2003, 02:20 PM

Are you pinging with hostnames or by ip-address?

person · 12-17-2003, 02:43 PM

I guess I forgot to say. I've been doing it by IP addresses.

Tinkster · 12-17-2003, 03:05 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by person
I guess I forgot to say. I've been doing it by IP addresses.

What's the output of
route
?
Are you running iptables, blocking icmp's? :)
iptables -L

Cheers,
Tink

person · 12-17-2003, 03:38 PM

For all you curious people out there, here is the output of /sbin/route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
64.40.40.6 * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

(It doesn't want to print more than one space for each break. Sorry!)
The program iproute doesn't seem to be on my machine. This is a VERY minimal installation, so my problem MIGHT be from missing programs. Tell me if you think you might know which they are.

Tinkster · 12-17-2003, 04:15 PM

If this is the enitre route I'm not surprised it doesn't work ;)

There's no default gateway defined.

Cheers,
Tink

person · 12-17-2003, 08:20 PM

At first I had no idea what you meant by a default route, but I found a reference to it in the pppd manpage. It works just fine now. Thanks Tinkster!

Tinkster · 12-17-2003, 08:57 PM

Good on yah!

And blessed is the man who can read, for he
shall be called Guru someday ;)

Cheers,
Tink