[plug] Access to the internet problem

[Christian]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 03:45:17PM +1000, Phillip Steege wrote:
> I setup my kppp to dial out and connect to the ISP.  All that works fine, 
> except I cannot ping, or nslookup any website.
> Kmail will not find the ISP mail server.
> I do a netstat -i and can see the ppp0 connection is up and running.
> 
> If I then enter the "/sbin/route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 dev ppp0"
 
> Then I can access the internet.
> Did I miss something in my initial setup?  I never had to do that with 
> previous linux installations.

It looks like pppd is not setting up the default route for you.  You
need to include the pppd options 'defaultroute'.  I'm not sure how this
relates to your using kppp since I've never used this. 

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