On Mon, 07 Jul 1997 13:19:36 PDT Stephen Witt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to set diald up at home. I'm using Debian 1.3. My > network connection is a modem using PPP to my ISP. My ISP > dynamically assigns both local and remote IP addresses for this > link. I've been using PPP manually for some time now, so have a > working connection script. The symptoms of the problem are that if I > try to do something that requires the network to be up, diald dials, > connects to my ISP, and the PPP link seems to get setup properly. > However, I can send no traffic to my ISP. In examining the routing > table, is seems that the only route to my ISP is a host route that is > set up when the PPP network interface is configured.
Can you ping the ISP's machine or telnet to it ? > There is a > default route to the SLIP network interface. I'm using the > 'defaultroute' option in diald (my diald.options file is included > below), which sets this route up initially. I was sort of expecting > that this route would be deleted and a new default route added for > the PPP interface. Generally, diald has two modes of operation once the link is up: 1) it can use reroute, in which case it doesn't create a new default route, but diald forwards the packets itself, 2) without reroute, it creates a new default route, with a lower metric, and the kernel will chosse this route. > If I manually do delete the default route and add > a new one for the PPP interface, everything works fine as now I have > both a good network interface and a route to use it. If I remove the > 'defaultroute' option from the diald.options file, then diald dosn't > dial (which is the way it works, I understand, as it needs to recv > pkts at the psuedo interface to start the dialing process). Did you remove the defaultroute option from ppp.options ? You must let diald play with the routes the way it wants... >From your diald.conf: > # Network Configuration > local 192.168.0.1 > remote 192.168.0.2 > dynamic > strict-forwarding > mtu 576 > mru 576 > reroute > defaultroute > addroute /etc/diald/addroute What does is addroute script do ? You might want to drop it and let diald do the route itself. I'm not sure, but I think that using addroute invalidates defaultroute... Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
