[ale] followup: bellsouth.net adsl setup

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Sat Mar 2 13:29:31 EST 2002


<homer> Duh!! I forgot to mention the ifcfg-ppp0 file should have the
line:
DEFROUTE=yes
</homer>

On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 12:09, Ian Kennedy wrote:
> Thanks for such a quick response. Here is what I've discovered so far:
> 
> I can ping my ethernet card at 10.0.0.10, I am using DHCP, I'm not sure the IP address of my modem, but it seems to be operating fine (see below).
> 
> The output I get from adsl-start is this:
> 
> pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> using interface ppp0
> (this one is from pppoe) connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/0
> ppp session is 1374
> remote message: CHAP authentication success, unit 955
> not replacing existing default route to eth0 [0.0.0.0]
> local IP address 67.34.134.167
> remote IP address 67.34.134.1
> primary DNS address 205.152.37.254
> secondary DNS address 205.152.0.5
> 
> I can ping my local and remote IP addresses fine, but when I ping my DNS servers, I get this message: "From 10.0.0.10: Destination Host Unreachable"... this is where my problem is, isn't it? It shouldn't be trying to ping from 10.0.0.10?
> 
> John, I will see if I can get a static IP today and put it in my resolv.conf file.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Ian
> 
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