[juneau-lug] Re: networking help, please?

Nels,

Try specifying a DNS server or two. GCI has a couple, though I can't recall 
their IP's. Ditto ACS.

Chuck

----- Original Message -----
From: Nels Tomlinson <nelstomlinson@xxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, July 11, 2003 0:42 am
Subject: [juneau-lug] networking help, please?

> Hi,
> 
> I finally got my computer running again (yes, it was a bad fan on 
> the 
> CPU; it spun, but too slowly), and I decided to install Knoppix 
> instead 
> of the redhat 7.x which was on there.  That's when the troubles began.
> 
> I can get wvdial to dial gci, but once I'm connected, I can't seem 
> to 
> get anywhere.  Can't resolve urls, can't ping anything I know the 
> address for (slashdot is 65.35.250.150, I think).  Somehow, it 
> wants to 
> use eth0 instead of ppp0.  When I do ``ifconfig eth0 up'', it 
> tries to 
> resolve urls, and times out.  When I do ``ifconfig eth0 down'', it 
> tells 
> me it can't reach the network.  All the while, I'm dialed into GCI 
> and 
> ppp0 is ``up'', according to ifconfig.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue about how I tell the box to ignore the 
> ethernet 
> card when pppd is active?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nels
> 
> 
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