Re: SLIPing... and I can't get up!

[roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de]

> > I did notice one slight problem though...  any name-server requests would
> > fail instantly; nothing was sent to my default gateway.  What do I have to

Then there's something wrong with your routing table, or does this only occure
for packets to the name server? How did you establish the connection and what
does your routing table look like?

> > do to get nameserver requests working?  Recompile all the binaries with
> > the newer socket library?

If you can ping your nameserver (can you?) and your /etc/resolv.conf looks like

domain <your domain>
nameserver <IP address of your nameserver>

and host name lookup still doesn't work, then compile
net-072/test/inet/hostlookup.c and run it with the host name to look up as
the first argument. If that works and the other binaries don't, then you
will have to recompile and relink everything with the newest socket lib.

It is generally wise to recompile older binaries, because only the socket
library as of 0.56 has resolv+ in it (ie. is then configureable via
/etc/host.conf).

> > I had another problem as well (gee, who isn't having problems?  we should
> > really come up with a nice install script or something)...  PPP would't
> > work.  Nothing was being sent back to me from the remote host.  ifconfig
> > suggested that everything was OK (mtu was 1500, which pppd says is the
> > default) and the routes looked OK.  Any ideas?
> 
> Hey, I'm not having problems!  <g>  Actually, I've had this problem, 
> too.  My server uses Morningstar PPP v2.6, and I don't believe this is 
> supported by MiNT-Net (yet!).  Someone else could correct me if I'm 
> wrong.  Perhaps your server is using something similar.

What's special with Morningstart PPP? The MintNet PPP driver is as per RFC
1331 and should work with every other PPP. The pppd from ppp-212 is also
so to say a Unix PPP standard. I can't imagine a reason why it shouldn't
work.

Ahem, I hope you used pppd? The -p ppp option in slattach or the ppp stuff
in dip CANNOT bring up a PPP link! You MUST use pppd (it does not only set
up the ppp interface, it also does an option negotiation protocol with the
remote pppd before the link is brought up).

Kay.
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Kay Roemer              roemer@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de
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