On 10/3/07, Matt Graham wrote: > > After a long battle with technology, Dazed_75 wrote: > > On 10/1/07, betty wrote: > > > I just put ubuntu on my office computer, got it to connect o.k. to the > > > internet, BUT it doesn't recognize my outgoing or incoming email > servers > > > and for some reason, the firefox won't connect. although i can see on > > > the ext. modem (and hear on the phone line) that it IS connected. > > I would add that it does seem a bit odd to be using dial-up from an > office > > computer (though not unheard of). > > Yeah, most offices have something better than dialup if they've got more > than > one machine in them. You sort of need bandwidth if you have people > mailing > each other 10M .ppt files all day (which happens a lot.) > > > But based on other experiences, I can say that Linux in general does > > not always handle having two separate paths to the internet very well. > > That's what the "assign default route to this interface" checkbox in kppp > is > for. Check it, and the PPP interface becomes the default gateway. This > is > what most PPP users want, though there are specialized situations when you > don't want this. Thanks Matt, that's news to me, but then I have never done dial-up in Linux. Also, from a quick web search it looks like kppp is a KDE thing. Is there a gnome equivalent (for future reference only)? > Case in point being a system having both a wired and a wireless connection > > even via the same router. You might want to try ifconfig to see if the > > system believes it has two working interfaces to the net. > > Actually, "route -n" would be a better thing to look at if the routes are > mangled. You'd see one line like so: > > Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use > Iface > 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 > eth0 > > ...packets that are not destined for the local (192.168.1.0, 127.0.0.0) > nets > are sent to the gateway. Betty would probably see something similar, but > it'd be ppp0 instead of eth0, and the gateway address would probably be a > routable IP corresponding to the device on the other end of the PPP link. Cool. I did not know this either. But can you give an example of what it would look like if broken by two interfaces to the same gateway? Network Manager, when I finally got it working right, solved the problem for me and I am not willing to break it to test what output route -n would give. -- > I find that having a pint or two is a good problem-solving technique. > Especially if it's vodka rather than beer. > --Peter Corlett in ASR > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George F. Will