Can't make connection away from home

Thu Dec 15 20:12:57 UTC 2005

Thanks, that looks like it worked.  Unfortunately I don't
really know how to interpret the output, except that the key
addresses sort of look dynamic to me.  Would you have a look and
see what you think?  Output follows:
adsl-67-124-225-163:/etc fayoliver$ netstat -rn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use  Netif Expire
default            63.201.39.254      UGSc       15       15   ppp0
63                 ppp0               USc         0        0   ppp0
63.201.39.254      63.201.32.194      UH         16        0   ppp0
127                127.0.0.1          UCS         0        0    lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          9     4864    lo0

Internet6:
Destination                             Gateway                         
Flags      Netif Expire
::1                                     link#1                          
UHL         lo0
fe80::%lo0/64                           fe80::1%lo0                     
Uc          lo0
fe80::1%lo0                             link#1                          
UHL         lo0
ff01::/32                               ::1                             
U           lo0
ff02::/32                               ::1                             
UC          lo0

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

> 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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