Can't make connection away from home

[Joseph Kubik]

netstat may give you the routing table then?
Try netstat -rn
-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:
> 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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