Topic: where to put static IP of PPP dialup access

[Tony Zhu]

The e-smith 3.1 is istalled as server and gateway mode - dial up access. After setup  modem port, dialup access number, dialup account name and password, the modem dialup is ok. I also setup backup DNS servers via e-smith manager. I tried put local IP as static IP provided by my ISP in diald.conf. But the esmith server and workstations can not ping any sites (e.g. www.ibm.com). Does anyone know where to put static IP of PPP dialup.

[Charlie Brady]

Tony Zhu wrote:

> The e-smith 3.1 is istalled as server and gateway mode - dial
> up access. After setup  modem port, dialup access number,
> dialup account name and password, the modem dialup is ok. I
> also setup backup DNS servers via e-smith manager. I tried put
> local IP as static IP provided by my ISP in diald.conf. But
> the esmith server and workstations can not ping any sites
> (e.g. www.ibm.com). Does anyone know where to put static IP
> of PPP dialup.

You don't say where you tried the local IP in diald.conf.

WHat IP address is your PPP link getting? From the symptoms, it
is not getting a valid Internet address. What does it say after "inet addr" when you do "/sbin/ifconfig ppp0"?

Try putting "noipdefault" in the pppd-options line of diald.conf. If that doesn't work, replace "noipdefault" by
"x.x.x.x:" - where x.x.x.x is your static IP address.

Charlie