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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!europa.clark.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP- a one way street? Date: 27 Jun 1997 21:31:52 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5p1bg8$rd6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33B38628.446B9B3D@javanet.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43669 Jack <harpoMARX@javanet.com> wrote: > After scanning through more mailing list and news archives than I > would've liked, I have to admit that I have no idea why I can't > telnet/ping the ip address which is assigned me (dynamicaly) by my > isp. Why do you want at all? PPP interfaces are simplex, i.e. they don't see their own packets. I think you need to add a route to your own end through localhost if you really wanna talk to yourself -- but if that's your only desire, why don't you telnet to localhost directly? The PPP link itself should not be affected by your unability to talk to yourself. > The only thing I'm worried about is that I did not use the gateway > address my isp gave me anywhere! (It's 205.219.162.1) > default 206.103.15.2 UGc 1 0 tun0 > 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 0 0 lo0 > 206.103.15.2 206.103.15.27 UH 2 0 tun0 Given that your remote end is 206.103.15.2, i don't see what the 205 address should be good for at all. But this question cannot be answered without knowing the exact topology of the underlying network. Try talking to 206.103.15.2 first, then tracerouting your supposed nameservers. Maybe your ISP simply doesn't know the in's and out's, and told you about _his_ default gateway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)