[plug] 2.2.3 and PPP problem.

[Trevor Phillips]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> 
> > I've installed the Slink Debian afresh with the 2.2.1 kernel for my
> > Gateway box at home, and now I'm having problems with PPP. The
> > chat-script goes fine, and watching the log it correctly connects,
> > authenticates, and sets up the server/client IP's. However, I cannot
> > ping the other side of the PPP link. Local IP is fine, remote, not so
> > much.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Check your routing tables, and make sure that the keyword 'default' is
> added to your ppp dialup script to add a default route through the PPP link.

Routing is fine, although it does take a while for it to return the route
tables.

I now suspect the culprit to be Debian's IP Masquerading package. It seems to
do a pile of stuff upon boot (haven't looked in to the "black box" to see what
yet). If I disable IP Masq, reboot (gack! What is this? Windoze? ^_^), login to
the PPP, and THEN manually run /sbin/ipmasq, it all works. I can ping things,
and IP Masq works (with everything I've tested).

So, the problem seems to be IP Masq loading before PPP ... *sigh*
I'll probably dump the Debian package and set it up manually myself (so I know
what it's doing).

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