Re: The PPP negotiation failed, coz serial loopback was detected

Old guy writes:
And this is wrong. You are saying that the Internet is reachable by
sending everything to a router located at 192.168.0.1. If this is the
case, why do you need dialin? If the world isn't reachable through
a router at that address, remove the line in /etc/network/interfaces
that says

gateway 192.168.0.1

Looks like an installer misfeature inherited from Debian. It asks you if
you have a LAN and if you say yes makes it the default route.

Second line, I don't know, as I'm not using Ubuntu. I'd look in the /etc/
directory, and one or two levels below, and see if some file has the word
'LinkLocal' or 'ZeroConf'.

Just remove the zeroconf package with ¨apt-get remove zeroconf¨ or
similar. One of the Gnome packages drags it in for no good reason.
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John Hasler
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Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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