Leslie Todd Masco <cactus@hks.net> recently wrote:


>
>>  I can ping my supplier haven.ios.com just fine,
>> but if I try to ftp to ftp.uni-regensburg.de, ftp just sits there.
>
>I don't have my machine in front of me, but take a look at /etc/netstart
>and see where it gets a gateway for "route add default."  It looks like
>you aren't telling the kernel (either through "route add default" or
>through a switch to pppd) that traffic for all addresses whould go
>through ppp0.

There's an option to pppd to make it add a default route when pppd is
running; you're probably forgetting that.  I think all you have to do
is add 'defaultroute' to /etc/ppp/options.

 Eric Mehlhaff, mehlhaff@crl.com