pppd problems on RH7.2

[Lead_Pilot]

Hi,

I've got a problem with pppd on RedHat 7.2. I can dial up fine, and keep a connection, I just cant use it. Any page I try to visit just times out. I tried pinging the ISP's ip, and that works, but if I ping 'www.google.com' I get nothing.

I suspect it may be a problem the DNS setup, as it cant seem to resolve any addresses. But I have set up /etc/resolv.conf

I am totally stuck here, but I don't think that this is a one off, as I remeber having the same problem last time I ran 7.2, and just using kppp instead.

Cheers.

[kevinalm]

Iirc there is another set of conf files ppp uses depending on the dialer used. Not in linux at the moment but maybe /etc/ppp or /etc/sysconfig/ppp? Or /etc/sysconfig/network ?

Also, have you tried wvdial?

[Lead_Pilot]

IT sound likely. That's the one thing I don't like about RH, it's unwillingness to standardise, and it's tendency to take a well organized and assumed structure (such as the /etc/ tree) and scatter it freeking everywhere.

Basiacally I just set up:
/etc/resolv.cof
/etc/ppp/options
/etc/ppp/<my own chat script>
/etc/ppp/pap-secrets

and then just involke pppd to dial up, which is does but I just cant get anywhere with the connection.

I'm too tired to boot up the problem mach and do anything about it at the moment, but I will let you know how it goes.

I suspect that I am not the first to encounter this problem, and that is is a Red Hat 7.2/7.3 indisyncracy, as I have seen many similar posts (all without resolution). I may just use kppp again.

But if anyone got pppd set up in RH7.2/7.3 i would love to hear from you.

Cheers,
Dylan