[plug] PPP oddity

[Jeremy Malcolm]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Matt Kemner wrote:

> Check your FireWall rules.

There are none... good thought though.

On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Kai wrote:

> I assume your using Linux.
> Have you tried at root:
> route add defaul ppp0
> to tell Linux what your new (default) gateway is?

The default gateway is correctly in place, but even if it wasn't, I should
still be able to ping the other end of the link because a static route
exists for that.  I can't even do that.

> Hope this helps !

Thanks, but it didn't... :-(  Could even be a hardware problem I guess
(although the modem establishes a terminal connection with no
probs.)

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