Re: ppp,redhat4.2...host unreachable

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From: Peter Rye
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 00:00

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ungtu@latcs1.cs.latrobe.edu.au (Jason Ung) writes:

> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I would like to ask those who have used Linux Redhat 4.2 before..
> I have manage to get my LAN to work.. now I wanna get my ppp as well.
> 
> 
> I have try to get my ppp to work .. now I try to manually dial in using 
> minicom then exit without reset the modem.. all work fine... get connected
> and able to start the ppp connection... after that I start the 
> pppd -d -detach /dev/ttyS1 38400 &   
> 
> I try to ping my isp host but it say .. host unreachable
> 
> also I try $route -n
> and somehow there is one entry that point to ppp interface...there should be 2.
> the one I got is the destination .. there is no default ... it appear as 0.0.0.0.

You should add the default option to pppd.

Something more like this should work:

pppd /dev/cua1 57600 lock -detach crtscts modem asyncmap 0 defaultroute

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Date: 1998/01/14
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