[plug] route problems

[Cameron Patrick]

Mageaere wrote:

| I can successfull ping the ip address of the isp's end of the ppp link
| but nothing behind it. Have tried automatic DNS server assignment and
| manually settign the DNS servers without any joy.

So it sounds like a routing problem, as you guessed.

| Then I decided to have a look at the route table and something wierd
| happened. I type in the route command as root and press enter. I get
| the headings for the route entries and then the program hangs.

It's probably trying to do a DNS look-up of the IP addresses in the
routing table.  'route -n' or 'netstat -r -n' will tell it to print
the numeric IPs instead.

Cameron.