Dial Up vs Ethernet

Hi,

I have just set up an Internet Connection in Mandrake 9.1. This dials in and
connects OK, however the browsers do not use it. When an address is entered
they just return host not found messages. I have read that this could be
that they are trying to use the ethernet adapter not the dial up. Could this
be the case? If so, how do I disable it? The network 'card' id onboard on
the motherboard.

Thank you,

Ian

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 23:03:35 +0000, beale wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just set up an Internet Connection in Mandrake 9.1. This dials in and
> connects OK, however the browsers do not use it. When an address is entered
> they just return host not found messages. I have read that this could be
> that they are trying to use the ethernet adapter not the dial up. Could this
> be the case? If so, how do I disable it? The network 'card' id onboard on
> the motherboard.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ian

Check to make sure your /etc/resolv.conf has the correct DNS servers
listed.

beale wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just set up an Internet Connection in Mandrake 9.1. This dials in
> and connects OK, however the browsers do not use it. When an address is
> entered they just return host not found messages. I have read that this
> could be that they are trying to use the ethernet adapter not the dial up.
> Could this be the case? If so, how do I disable it? The network 'card' id
> onboard on the motherboard.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ian

Probably your default route is goofed up- You can see your default routing
table with this command:

#/sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
12.34.45.78 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 12.34.45.78 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ppp0

Notice how the G flag is on ppp0- this is good. If appears for eth0, that is
bad.

A quick test is first delete the default route, then dial up and see how
things work:

#/sbin/route del default

If that fixes it, you need to do some routing tweaks.

Alice