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Re: ppp defaultroute question

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From: Mirko Fluher
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:00
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In <53vr1n$k0t@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> cvxmck@mailbox.uq.edu.au writes:

>I'm configuring my linux box as a web server/router for our Netware
>lan.
>I've finally got ppp connected (and what's more, I even understand
>some of it!)  but the only way I can talk to the world is to manually
>"route add default gw x.x.x.x dev ppp0".  It doesn't happen even
>though I've got the defaultroute line in my pppd script (as per the
>HOWTOs).
>Also, I can ping and nslookup the world once I'm connected, but I
>can't access past the linux box with Netscape running on a Windows
>box.  Netscape just times out.
>Here's a mud map.


>---------------internet----------------
>     |
>     |
>   ISP
>     |  (ppp dialup)
>     |
>  Linux Box
>     |
> ----------------Netware 4.1 Lan-------- DOS/Win ---

>I can access my own www page running on Linux box, but won't access
>past the linux box.  But I can ping and nslookup from linux to the
>internet.

>Any help would be appreciated.

>Network Administrator
>Clairvaux MacKillop College
>Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA
>cvxmck@mailbox.uq.edu.au

Not sure... could be a 'proxy' problem... netscape time out is often related
to proxy.

Cheers,


-- 
Mirko Fluher 			APANA Membership Database Co-ordinator
http://pax.apana.org.au		PGP Public key: finger pgp@pax.apana.org.au
Australian Public Access Network Association	http://www.apana.org.au
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From: mir@pax.apana.org.au (Mirko Fluher)
Subject: Re: ppp defaultroute question
Date: 1996/10/16
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