Network problem with LAN & ppp [Archive]

louis_b

08-16-2002, 04:48 AM

I'm running a dual boot PC at work, with windows and RH 7.2, on a network with internet access. The network runs fine in both OSs. The network does not allow access to pop3 servers so I use kppp to connect to an isp under linux or dial-up network in windows. And, I use the dial-up network in the case that the access to the internet through the network is down. In Windows, this work well. However, under linux, I can connect easily enough but nothing happens. If I run Opera or Mozilla, and set the proxy server to the isp's proxy server, I get an error message that it can't find the proxy server. I suspect that the gateway IP is forcing the software to ignore the proxy server at the isp. Now, if I shut down the network using the command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop

before I use kppp, not only can I connect to the isp but Mozilla or Opera works just fine. However, this seems to be a strange way of getting it to work as I should be able to have the network work and have access to the dial-up network. Also, if I stop the network, I can't print anything as lpd stops working.

I'm sure the solution is simple but I can't find it. I'd sure hate to have to remove the gateway IP everytime I want to connect to an isp and shutting down the network access is not acceptable if I want to print.

I have added all the hosts including proxies and gateway to my /etc/hosts file

Thanks for any help.

knute

08-16-2002, 05:22 AM

Alright, I know that the situations are different, but they are similar. I used to have a cable modem and no dun modem in this machine, then I moved and had to put the dun modem back in. Anyway, with all that I have a dummy nic installed and have apache hung off that.

So basically I have an internal net and an external net. When I put the modem back in, I had a problem with being able to get ip's to resolve. What I did was use debian's pppconfig and set up the default route in the ppp script.

I don't know anything about kppp, but if there is a check box or something for default route, that may take care of the issue.

HTH