Re: Diald on RH 6.2 initializing errors

[Gary Hinton <ghinton@eng.mcd.mot.com>]

Rod,

Thanks for your help.  I read the article you suggested.  It helped me see
some things I did not find in the other articles I had read.

I now have a manual 'startppp' script that gets me logged onto my ISP.
I can ping other addresses from my Iserver gateway box.  So I am just about
ready to enable diald.

But ....

From one of the other boxes on my local network, I can ping Iserver,
but it cannot ping any of the other addresses that the gateway box can.
It acts like it is not forwarding the packets from the local network
on to the Internet.

I did set FOWARD_IPV4=true as the article suggested.  But this apparently
did not help.

And now, repsonses to your questions:
> 
> Does your log contain any lines related to the dialup connection?  What
> do they look like?

No, there were no dialup requests.  Diald was not trying to dial.

> 
> You might want to try minicom to see if you can initate a dialup
> directly and verify your expect statements.
> 
> Have you tried starting up ppp manually with the chat script that you
> have?  The Linux Gazette has an article that may help you.
> 
> http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue26/kunz.html#pppd2
> 

I had done manual ppp dialup months ago, using a different article.  But
I did it again, using this article.  Now I have a script that works quite well.

> >
> > So it looks like it is starting.  But when I try to ping a known place,
> > nothing happens.  The logs do not show any action.
> >
> > To see how it had been setup, I entered: /sbin/route -n , and got this display:
> >
> > Kernel IP routing table
> > Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> > 192.168.1.101   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    1      0        0 tap0
> > 192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0
> > 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> > 192.168.1.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 tap0
> > 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> > 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
> > 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     1      0        0 tap0
> > 0.0.0.0         192.168.1.254   0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0
> >
> > There is one line of all zeros.  I think that is supposed to be bad.
> 
> Doesn't appear to be bad.  My output also has one line that is all zeros
> but that is the only line that has 0.0.0.0 in the leftmost column
> 
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
> 10.0.2.3        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 eth0
> 206.191.0.146   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
> 206.191.0.146   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0        0 ppp0
> 10.0.2.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0         U     0      0        0 ppp0
> 
> Does Iserver have two ethernet interfaces?  Can you explain?

No, only one network card in the system.

> 
> Do you have a custom kernel that perhaps doesn't have slip included?

I don't know about this.  I just loaded 6.2 from the CD.


Thanks again for your help.

Gary

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