How do I connect to my ISP under either RedHat 6.0 or Caldera OpenLinux 2.2?
Christopher E. Souter
Hi, everybody!
I am a Linux newbie, and I am having trouble getting
either kppp or Network Configurator to connect
correctly to my new ISP.
I have several OS's on my computer: Win98, OS/2 Warp 4,
RedHat 6 and Caldera OpenLinux 2.2.
Win98 DialUp Networking connects to my ISP every time
without any problem - aside from an occasional busy
line, that is! My OS/2 dialer also works fine,
although I had to get some tech support for it to
connect to this particular ISP.
Before anyone says "RTFM,", I can't find any online
documentation for these programs, apart from the kppp
manual, and it doesn't have what I'm looking for.
My ISP runs a RedHat 6 server, but cannot tell me what
to do when using the above-mentioned X-Windows GUI
programs! The only instructions given on the web site
are for Windows 98. All you have to do in Windows 98
is to tell DialUp Networking the telephone number, your
username and pasword. There are no addresses of any
kind to type in. Win98 DUN handles the rest
automatically.
As I said before, Win98 and OS/2 work fine - Netscape
works, ftp works - the server-assigned DNS's all work
OK. How can I get kppp or Network Configurator to work
with this ISP? I cannot get Netscape to work on either
of my Linux boxes. I get the "Unknown Host" message
from Netscape when I just try to connect to
http://home.netscape.com!
I feel that it must be something to do with the
server-assigned addresses , but I don't know what. I
have tried making all the addresses 0.0.0.0, but that
doesn't work, either.
Can anyone tell me how to set up these programs to work
with an ISP where *EVERYTHING* is done automatically?
Also, where can I find any log files that might tell me
what is happening?
Thenks in advance
Chris Souter
(Australia)
cso...@yesnet.com.au
Mihaly Gyulai
"Christopher E. Souter" <cso...@yesnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi, everybody!
Hi
> I get the "Unknown Host" message
> from Netscape when I just try to connect to
> http://home.netscape.com!
It's not a connection problem, but a DNS problem...
You should tell to your system where to resolve the
Internet names, like 'home.netscape.com' to IP addresses.
It can be done in /etc/resolv.conf, there you should
give a 'nameserver' IP address, which your ISP uses...
My /etc/resolv.conf:
search localhost
nameserver 172.16.2.253
(this is our intranet IP address, so you can't use it...)
** You should put here the IP address of your ISP's nameserver.
> Also, where can I find any log files that might tell me
> what is happening?
There is, or can be, but I don't know your Linux distribution
well..., I'm sorry.
Maybe others can help to find a ppp-log file on your system...
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Anita Lewis
On Mon, 08 Nov 1999 15:07:58 +1000, Christopher E. Souter
<cso...@yesnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>Hi, everybody!
>
>I am a Linux newbie, and I am having trouble getting
>either kppp or Network Configurator to connect
>correctly to my new ISP.
Is your ISP chap or pap? If so that goes in kppp. Also they may have
something needed as an argument. Like when I had Prodigy, I had to put
the following in as an argument: username ajle...@prodigy.net. Most of
the time the username does not include the domain name, but they needed
it.
This site address has a very good means of checking out what an isp is
expecting so that you will be able to plug it into kppp if you cannot get
this from them directly.
http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html
<snip>
>
>OK. How can I get kppp or Network Configurator to work
>with this ISP? I cannot get Netscape to work on either
>of my Linux boxes. I get the "Unknown Host" message
>from Netscape when I just try to connect to
>http://home.netscape.com!
>
Are you saying that Netscape doesn't work once you are online? It does
not do the connection itself.
Anita
Christopher E. Souter
I'm saying that Netscape doesn't work once
I'm online. That's why I think kppp or Network
Configurator aren't getting addresses back from
the ISP.
My ISP is PAP.
I think the ISP must be accepting my username
and password, because it's not hanging up on
me as it would if these itmes were incorrect.
At any rate, the username and password work
OK in Win98 and OS/2.
I might add that I went through the trace file
generated by my OS/2 dialer, and found all the
addresses: IP Destination, Primary and Secondary
DNS, etc, but neither kppp nor Network Configurator
would work with those addresses when I typed them
into the appropriate fields in the setup dialogs.
The manual for kppp simply says that you should
type in the addresses in the appropriate places,
but says nothing about what you should do if the
ISP assigns these addresses automatically.
In the OS/2 dialer, if the ISP is fully automated,
the manual says to type 0.0.0.0 into all the address
fields. This works OK. Win98 already has 0.0.0.0
inserted into the fields, which are grayed out unless
you choose to specify the addresses yourself.
This is what I don't understand: if I set the Win98
and OS/2 dialers up in this way, why can't I do the
same under Linux?
BTW, with RedHat 6, I'm using Network Configurator,
which I used successfully with RedHat 5.2 (but with my
old ISP); with Caldera OpenLinux 2.2, I'm using kppp.
Thanks for the advice, and the links. I'll check them
out and see what I can come up with. Meanwhile, the
mystery deepens.
Best regards
Chris Souter
(Australia)
cso...@yesnet.com.au
John Hasler
> I'm saying that Netscape doesn't work once I'm online. That's why I
> think kppp or Network Configurator aren't getting addresses back from the
> ISP.
kppp doesn't know how to deal with "dynamic dns". Get the numbers from
OS/2 and type them in to kppp. They aren't really dynamic.
So far as I know only pppconfig in Debian's unstable distribution handles
dynamic dns.
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