Hi, Thank's to all the people who have helped me recently. Every time I solve one problem, another appears.
I tried establishing a ppp link and found it didn't work. To find out what was going on, I ran route and got: # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface and then route just hung. When pppd was not connected, I got: # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 6 lo default * 0.0.0.0 U 1 0 12 eth0 or, doing route -n: # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.1.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 6 lo 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 1 0 12 eth0 I tried several things to try and get it to work. Previously ppp had worked when I had nothing in my /etc/modules file, so I tried commenting out the entries and rebooted. PPP now works (as you can see by the fact that I am typing this), however I think ppp working is the result of a side effect: namely, that as a result my local ethernet network wasn't setup. If I now type route, before running pppd, I get: # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localhost * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 2 lo And with pppd running I get: # route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface localhost * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 2 lo annex05.cc.flin * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 default annex05.cc.flin 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 3 ppp0 So the question is: what is wrong? Why can't I run the ethernet network and pppd at the same time? I could with my old slackware system. Thank's for your help, Mark Phillips. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) P.S. I'm not convinced it is a problem with the ethernet network because I think (but am not sure) that I may have previously had a debian system working with both pppd and ethernet running simultaneously, though, if I remember rightly, I routed ethernet manually that time.
