[plug] pppd

[Paul Dean]

Hya Bill,

Have you checked the route table when pppd is up. Has it become the
default gateway? Or is it doing someting else.
Also the internal machines are they pointing to your gateway machine
eth0 address?
Have a look in '/var/log/messages' for errors.
You can also add 'DEBUG=yes', this will ouput more info to syslog.


Hope this helps...


On 2 Jul 2002 billk at iinet.net.au wrote:

> A gentoo system that I have built up has a weird pppd related fault:
> 
> 1) pppd not dialed in, internal network is fine
> 2) pppd active, internet connection is fine, but local network (eth0) has
> high error rate and timeouts. 
> 3) kill pppd, the internal network comes good.
> 
> It does not appear firewall related, nothing other than eth0 timeouts in
> the log.
> Im lost - any ideas?
> 
> BillK
> 

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