Can't make connection away from home

[Joseph Kubik]

First thing to check is the route -n  output.
It needs to match from your box vs the Mac.

If that does not do it, does the pon script (pppoe connection) have
the DSL curcuit number in it, or is that set on the modem itself (I
can't remember).
-Joseph-

On 12/15/05, moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org <moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Linux gurus and gurettes,
>
> I'm running Debian Sarge on a Compaq laptop, and I'm having
> a bit of trouble making an internet connection from my Mom's
> house in California.  She uses SBC Global DSL, which uses
> PPPoE.  (At home I use Sympatico with PPPoE, but I don't have
> to worry about it because the modem takes care of it; hers doesn't).
>
> Anyway I'm using pon to handle the PPPoE stuff, and that appears to
> be working; plog tells me I have a connection.  But I can't ping
> anything except the two numeric addresses that appear in the ppp0
> stanza in the output from ifconfig.  At first I thought it was a DNS
> issue, but I can't ping numeric addresses that I know are good either,
> so that's not it.  I also (briefly) turned off my iptables and ip6tables
> and it didn't help.
>
> I tried switching to DHCP but that didn't work either.  (I can't
> really tell whether my Mom's setup uses DHCP because she has
> a Mac and I don't know where to find that info on Macs.  At least
> it's OS X, so I can get a terminal window and do ifconfig and ping
> and traceroute, but so far they haven't told me what I need to know.)
>
> Anyone have any ideas?  I have made this work successfully before from
> my Mom's place, and her ISP hasn't changed.  The most obvious things
> that I might have changed are my network settings (to accomodate Sympatico);
> e.g. I now use a hardcoded IP address for eth0, but again, switching
> to DHCP didn't help (said it found no DHCPOFFERs, but it was trying at
> an obviously bogus address, 255.255.255.0 or something like that).  I'd
> appreciate it very much.
>
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