On Sat, 06 Jan 2001 18:27:01 Paul Greene wrote:
>I just installed Redhat 7.0, using Gnome. I don't seem to be able to
>connect to my ISP using the regular Gnome dial up tool.
>
>I filled in all the info in the dial up properties box about DNS ip
>addresses and such, and also put the ISP's domain name and nameserver/dns
>IP addresses in "resolv.conf", i.e.
>
>hostname isp.net
>nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>
>The dial up tool actually does dial the ISP and seemingly makes a
>connection, I can ping the dynamically assigned IP address it gives me, as
>well as the IP of the dial up server on the ISP end (I got both IP
>addresses from "ifconfig"), but I can't ping anywhere beyond that, and
>can't ping anywhere by hostname at all (i.e. www.cnn.com or whatever).
At this point, check your routing table:
/sbin/route -n
and see if you have a default route (line should start with 0.0.0.0). If
not, that's the problem. See if there's an option in the dialing setup tool
to specify that the dialup connection should be the default route.
>The weird part is that if I run the debug tool within the dial up
>configuration, it DOES connect and I can go anywhere (CNN, Redhat.com, etc
>etc), and ping anywhere by hostname or IP address, even though it says "not
>connected".
It probably assigns a default route. You can confirm this by cheking the
routing table before and after running the debug tool.
>A second minor problem, my phone doesn't give a dial tone immediately; it
>gives a series of 5-6 short beeps, which leads the modem to think there's
>no dial tone and it refuses to dial.
I only have a shot in the dark for that one. Try adding some commas to the
beginning of the phone number. Each comma is a 0.5 second pause.
Tony
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