On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Xavier de Labouret wrote:

> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> a =E9crit:
>
> > > Interestingly, the "permanent" connection (at boot, with ifwatchd)
> > > worked fine.
> > >
> > > But can anyone explain me why i could not access to the internet with
> > > manual connection?
> >
> > Is your resolv.conf setup properly ?
> > Do you have a default route installed (check with netstat -rn) ?
>
> 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 see you've already fixed this. But if you ever see something like the
above again (you can traceroute past the other end of the pppoe
connection), 95% to 99% chance it's your ISP.

Take care,

Bill