[plug] PPP oddity

[Jeremy Malcolm]

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I've had a few PPP problems in my time, but this one is weird.  PPP
connects and the log fileshows nothing unusual.  However I can't ping
the remote end of the link (or beyond).  When I try, ifconfig doesn't
show any increase in the packets sent/received, and for that matter
the modem's TX light doesn't flash. 

When I ping in the other direction (from the server) the RX light
flashes, but no reply is returned (same story if I ping from an
external network - which also indicates it is not a proxy-arp
problem, because I could at least ping the remote end of the link if
it was).

Routing table on the client end shows as follows (this all looks fine
to me):

Kernel IP routing table
Destination  Gateway      Genmask         Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.40 *            255.255.255.255 UH    0      0     0 eth0
203.25.143.1 *            255.255.255.255 UH    0      0     0 ppp0
192.168.1.0  *            255.255.255.0   U     0      0     0 eth0
127.0.0.0    *            255.0.0.0       U     0      0     0 lo
default      203.25.143.1 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0     0 ppp0

Any ideas, anyone?  TIA!

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