On Fri, 28 May 1999, Tony Tye wrote:

> I have a problem with pppd. I run pppd and get what appears to be a good
> connection. But when I try to run any program over the connection, such
> as telnet or ftp, or even ping, the program just hangs until I do
> Control-C to stop it. Can anyone see what is wrong here? I run pppd like
> this:
> 
> pppd call icubed

> May 26 15:08:44  pppd[240]: Serial connection established.
> May 26 15:08:45  pppd[240]: Using interface ppp0
> May 26 15:08:46  pppd[240]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/tty01
> May 26 15:08:49  pppd[240]: local  IP address 208.157.20.183
> May 26 15:08:49  pppd[240]: remote IP address 208.0.145.2

That means pppd is done! Can you ping by ip address? Then, to use
hostnames, you need to supply the ip of a nameserver or two in
/etc/resolv.conf. For details, see the man page for resolv.conf.