[NBLUG/talk] Can't get online w/new RH8 Install

[greenfly at greenfly.net]

Okay, let's break this down.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:55:09AM -0700, Dave Sisley wrote:
> ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
>           inet addr:66.81.148.151  P-t-P:66.81.235.186 
> Mask:255.255.255.255
>           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1524  Metric:1
>           RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:3 
>           RX bytes:222 (222.0 b)  TX bytes:296 (296.0 b)

This part looks normal, this is what you should be seeing.

> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Output of /sbin/route -n (after running /sbin/ifup ppp0).
> 
> Kernel IP routing table
> Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref 
>   Use Iface
> 66.81.235.186   0.0.0.0         255.255.255.255 UH    0      0   
>     0 ppp0
> 127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0   
>     0 lo
> 0.0.0.0         66.81.235.186   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0   
>     0 ppp0

Same for this, this is a valid route.

> Mar 11 06:49:04 localhost /etc/hotplug/net.agent: assuming ppp0 is
> already up
> Mar 11 06:49:06 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> ppp-compress-21
> Mar 11 06:49:06 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> ppp-compress-21

Now here's a problem.  I don't know whether it would prevent you from connecting
or not, but it's not finding the ppp-compress-21 module.  I would try changing
your settings to turn off compression and see if you have better results at that
point.  Any RH8 users around that know where that ppp-compress-21 module might
be?  Is there some alias that should be entered for that module?

> Mar 11 06:49:06 localhost pppd[1733]: local  IP address 66.81.148.151
> Mar 11 06:49:06 localhost pppd[1733]: remote IP address 66.81.235.186
> Mar 11 06:49:06 localhost pppd[1733]: primary   DNS address
> 66.81.7.158
> Mar 11 06:49:06 localhost pppd[1733]: secondary DNS address
> 66.81.0.252

See, at this point it should be inputting those two DNS servers into your
/etc/resolv.conf.  Curious that it gets those DNS addresses but doesn't put them
in there.

Question:  After you get done connecting, does:
ping 66.81.235.186
work?  
1)I would try reconnecting, note what the "remote IP address" is, and try
pinging it and see if you can get to it.  

2)If so, try pinging one of your DNS addresses such as 66.81.7.158 and see if
you can get that far.  

3)If you can get that far, try pinging sonic.net.

If step 3 fails, you have a nameserver problem.  If step 2 fails, then for some
reason your connecting isn't making it past the gateway.  If step 1 fails then
you can't even reach the gateway, which mean there is some problem with how you
are connecting to the gateway (I'd think routing issues if your route didn't
look fine).

Try those things and see if you can get any further.

Kyle