sounds like a routing problem, i remember this one well from my 8 hours strugglign to get online with slackware a few years back.
try adding the default gateway route add default gw <ip of the gateway> where the ip of the gateway is that other ip you can ping. nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- On Mon, 1 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please bear with me guys - I am having a bit of trouble > all in all, getting my Debian system to work nicely ( I > love it though). > > I have set up a PPP connection to my ISP (Freeserve in UK). > > Connection gets established OK - ifconfig shows it's up and > routing tables have sensible entries. > However I am only able to successfully ping the IP address > at the other end of the PPP connection. > If I ping anything else - despite the fact that my modem > lights seem to indicate a packet is returned - ping insists > that no packets have been received. > Could this be another inadvertant firewall problem? > I spent all weekend scratching my head - looking at every book > under the sun. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
