Re: TCP not working over ppp connection (WAS: 5th day using Linux...)

According to Andrew Sackville-West,
> On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:12:21 -0800
> "Tyson Varosyan" <tigran@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Yea, I am going to keep with it. This is just so damn frustrating! How would
> > all TCP traffic just be blocked be default?! I do not know enough about the
> > OS. I just got home and I am going to try some other flavors of Linux,
> > ubuntu, mandrake, whatever I can find. I tried to install Debian with the
> > 2.4 kernel. The only thing that was different is that my NIC did not get
> > magically put to Eth1 - it remained at Eth0. But the PPP problem was still
> > there.
> >
> > I have been administrating Corporate Windows Networks for 10+ years now and
> > I have never seen anything like this with the core OS! Weird-ass driver
> > issues, PNP (plug and pray) not working, devices getting *lost* or Windows
> > patches breaking device drivers - sure - seen it all. But nothing like where
> > a working device can connect, send ICMP traffic, route TCP traffic but not
> > use TCP for itself.... Plain weird!
>
> as I said before, I know naught of these things here, so help a bit and maybe I can help more. What do you mean by use TCP for itself? if its routing tcp traffic, you should be done? I know, I know, wget doesn't work etc. ummm...
>
> just for shits and giggles, what's your /etc/resolv.conf say?
>
> cat /etc/resolv.conf
>
> and how about cat /etc/network/ifaces?
>
> shots in the dark.
>
> fwiw, once you get it done, it will "just work", really....


Also, what about '/sbin/route -n'? Do you have more than
one interface? What's the output of '/sbin/ifconfig'


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