This is very complete! Thanks. I should have called this off earlier, however; I sent a messge that apparently went to the writer only, not to the list. I did not have /etc/resolv.conf set right, although I _thought_ I did! So thanks everyone!
Chris Joyner Jeff Gordon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:11:16AM -0400, J. Hartzelbuck wrote: > > > Using Debian, I've installed wvdial and can connect very nicely, but > > commands issued don't do anything! Ping doesn't respond, lynx doesn't > > respond. I'm new to all this, so don't know where I might be going > > wrong. Can anyone give any pointers? > > (Hi, Chris.) I think you're saying you've made a modem connection to > Internet using wvdial, but then can't get any further? > > Do you have a ppp connection established? Is there a default route? > > netstat -r > > ...should show 'default' and 'ppp0', if so. > > Do you have ip_forwarding turned 'on'? Try: > > cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > ...and you should get a result of '1'; if you don't, do: > > echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward > > ...and that'll put it there. Do you have "policy" rules that are set > to reject packets moving in or out of your own system? Do: > > ipchains -L > > ...to find out; if the 3 groups, "input", "output" and "forward" all > show a policy of "reject" (which is their default), you'll wanna change > that. If you're running a standalone system, you probably can do > blanket 'accept' statements and not be leaving your system open to > attack from "the outside world": > > ipchains -P input ACCEPT > ipchains -P output ACCEPT > ipchains -P forward ACCEPT > > ...will do that; it's likely you'll need to do that again, next time > you reboot. > > And that's about -all- I know about this. :-) If there are finer > points to it that should be added, maybe someone else will join in here > and let us know...? > > -- > > -- Jeff -- <http://www.wellnow.com> > > "There's nothing left in the world to prove. All that's worth doing > is to love one another, using whatever means are available to serve." > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
