Subject: Re: Modem logs in, but can't do anything
To: David Kanter <dkanter@rushu.rush.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/17/2001 15:14:30
On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 10:13:26PM -0600, David Kanter wrote:
> I've followed the NetBSD PPP User's Guide to the letter. I can use my modem
> to log in over the Internet, but no traffic goes over the line.
> 
> If I traceroute an address, it hops/recognizes two servers that are in my
> school's domain and then I get lines of "* * *" for the rest. If I ping an
> address, I get the introductory line of information and then it just hangs.
> Nothing
> 
> What have I done wrong? Is it a defaultroute thing? That's already in the
> pppd options file. Traffic works fine in Windows, so I don't think this is a
> hardware problem.

It looks like this is a route problem. What IP address do you get from the
server ? Are you sure it is routable, and that windows doesn't use some
kind of proxy ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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