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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help connecting to internet Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 20:11:53 -0700 Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 39 Message-ID: <31D34D79.6648@www.play-hookey.com> References: <4qmrh3$nv5@bambam.soi.city.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) Akdam T wrote: > > Hi all, > > I just signed up to connect to the internet with demon.co.uk > I've followed all the instructions to set up ppp,, but for some reason > it doesnot work ,, on ppp command line if I type show route I get: > > 112.0.0.0 158.152.91.5 00000000 U (4) > 123.232.232.12 158.152.91.5 ffffffff UH (4) > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 ffffffff UH (2) > 158.152.91.5 127.0.0.1 ffffffff UGH (2) > > and if I try netstat -r I get: > > Routing tables > > Internet: > Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire > 112 akdam USc 1 0 tun0 > localhost localhost UH 1 57 lo0 > 158.152.1.222 akdam UH 0 0 tun0 > akdam localhost UGHS 2 15 lo0 > > my machine is akdam.demon.co.uk (158.152.91.5) demon's gateway is > 158.152.1.222 > > and the netmask is 255.255.0.0 > > thanks for anyhelp.. Check the various sample files in /etc/ppp, and make sure you have an add ....... HISADDR line in your ppp.linkup file. It looks above as if you have a connection, but haven't established it as the route to use for IP traffic, since it isn't being used. I hope this helps! Ken