On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 06:31:15PM +0200, Xavier de Labouret wrote:
> In fact, i could not even ping my DNS by IP. A traceroute to these DNS
> showed a few hops inside my providers domain, ended by the fatal "3 stars"
> lines.
> 
> I already have set my default route with a manual call to
> 
> "route add default w.x.y.z"
> 
> where w.x.y.z is the IP address of my internet gateway. 
> 
> The only strange thing in manual attempts is an error message when i call
> "ifconfig pppoe0 inet 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.1 down". This message says:
> 
>  "lcp: illegal down in state initial"
> 
> I don't have such a message in permanent connection. Do you think it is
> related to my problem?

I don't think it is. Did up your interface after at some point ?

> I find it odd to have a dynamic IP from my ISP, and
> no internet access. Here are the possibilities i imagine:
> 
> - a problem with my ISP,
> - a bug in the kernel,
> - or maybe the manual connection is different from permanent
> connection (why?) in that can't give you a real internet connection. Has
> anyone tested manual connection with his own configuration, and accessed
> to internet hosts? This would help me much.

What do you call "manual connection" ws "permanent connection" ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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