Subject: Re: Kppp problems with YDL 2.1
From: John Schmidt (jas@netbrick.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 17:22:59 MST
Hi,
Instead of doing what Patrick suggested to get rid of the default route, just
edit the file /etc/sysconfig/network and change the GATEWAYDEV=eth0 to
GATEWAYDEV=
Then when you fire up kppp, the default gateway can be set to ppp.
In addition, you can also edit your machine name in this file by changing the
HOSTNAME= localhost to a name of your choice.
John Schmidt
On Thursday 08 November 2001 04:23, you wrote:
> On Thursday 08 November 2001 12:20, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am new to Linux but am determined to use it to its fullest. I have just
> > installed YDL 2.1 on an iMac Rev B machine. Install went flawlessly.
> >
> > I configured my Kppp and the dial up configurations. I did this in "root"
> > and also for a regular user. As far as I can tell, I did everything
> > correctly even to configuring the modem.
> >
> > Whenever I try to use Kmail or Konqueror, I either get an error message
> > saying that the host does not exist or that there was an error in
> > connecting to my POP3 mail. I can dial in alright, but my browser and
> > email client can;t seem to recognize this fact and return error messages
> > as if I am not logged on.
> >
> > Can someone please help?
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Try:
> /sbin/route to see what you have for a default route. It should not be
> eth0, it should be ppp0. If you've got the default as eth0, you can git
> rid of it immediately with the command
>
> /sbin/route -del default
>
> to make this permanent, edit /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.local (whichever
> you have), and add the line:
>
> /sbin/route del default
>
> I've done this and now when I log in, /sbin/route shows:
>
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
> Iface tc1.rnktel.net * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0
> 0 ppp0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
> 0 lo 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0
> 0 eth0 default tc1.rnktel.net 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0
> 0 ppp0
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