Can't make connection away from home

[moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org]

Thanks.  Unfortunately I can't make "route -n" work
on the Mac.  It responds
   usage: route [-dnqtv] command [[modifiers] args]
So I tried "route -n get", which gave me
   route: writing to routing socket: Invalid argument
Any idea how to find out what the corresponding output
should be from the Mac?

Quoting Joseph Kubik <josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:

> 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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