[plug] Keep losing my route to ISP

[Kai]

Howdy Phil,

Yeah, no worries.
I'm no networking guru, in fact I'd call myself a newbie - but if you got
any questions I'll do what I can to help you out (as will the rest of the
group I'm sure).

Good luck !

/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: Saturday, June 16, 2001 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Keep losing my route to ISP


> 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
>
>