[plug] Keep losing my route to ISP

[Phil Steege]

Kai

Thanks for that.
Yes, I know about the mirror and use it quite a lot.
As I find one thing, another problem evolves and I work on that.
As they say, it's like "peeling the layers of an onion".
Next step, backups of all of this.

Regards,
Phil


On Saturday 16 June 2001 08:37 am, Kai wrote:
> Phil,
>
> You got it all working now? great !
> As far as I know, if-up ppp0 (ppp by itlself won't work, you need to
> include the 0 on the end) will only work if you've set-up your internet
> connection either manually (editing a few text files like /etc/ppp/options
> and some network scripts) or if you used GNOME to configure your internet
> through Control Panel -> Network Configurator, but so long as it works for
> you everything's fine, then no worries !
>
> You probably know by now but all the HOWTO's are stored on the local mirror
> here:
> http://www.linux.org.au/LDP/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
>
> Have fun !
>
> /Kai
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Steege" <psteege at tpg.com.au>
> To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 2:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [plug] Keep losing my route to ISP
>
> > Kai,
> >
> > Nothing stopping me now.  I just had to read the ssh HOWTO and tinker a
> > little.
> > Now I got ssh and scp working, and I did what you suggested, but the
>
> ifup-ppp
>
> > would not work, so I did the following:
> >
> > xhost +
> > ssh to the firewall
> > DISPLAY=workstation:0.0;export DISPLAY
> > su -c "kppp &"
> > and VOILA I was up and running from my workstation.
> >
> > Only thing not working now is my mail smtp and pop through squid and the
> > firewall.  Time to do some more reading.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > On Saturday 16 June 2001 03:00 am, Kai wrote:
> > > Phil,
> > >
> > > What's stopping you from getting SSh to run?
> > >
> > > /Kai
> > >
> > > ---  You never know what you've got, until it's gone
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Phil Steege" <psteege at tpg.com.au>
> > > To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> > > Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:54 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [plug] Keep losing my route to ISP
> > >
> > > > Kai,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the tips and the links.
> > > > I will try that as soon as I figure out how to remotely login to my
> > > > server/gateway/firewall.  I haven't been able to get ssh working just
> > > > yet, and I don't want to enable rlogin or telnet on my firewall
>
> machine.
>
> > > > Another work in progress, but hey, that is what the fun of Linux is
>
> all